"The font looks too thin on my Mac compared to Windows." Fix: MacOS typically renders fonts with lighter anti-aliasing. Go into System Settings > Displays > Turn off "Font smoothing." Alternatively, use the "Regular" weight where you intended to use "Light."
If you are seeing "CIDFont-F1 cannot be created or found" or your text is appearing as dots or boxes, try these steps: CIDFont+F1 issue - Adobe Community Cidfont-f1 Font
CIDFont-F1 is a font that uses the CID character identification system to represent characters. It is a composite font, which means that it can contain multiple font designs, each representing a different character or set of characters. The CIDFont-F1 font is typically used in Asian languages, such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where a large number of characters are required to represent the language. "The font looks too thin on my Mac compared to Windows
CIDFont-F1 represents a pivotal era in digital typography. Before CID fonts, handling East Asian character sets (which can exceed 10,000 glyphs) required massive, unwieldy font files. The CID format allowed font developers to organize glyphs into manageable modules, drastically improving rendering speed and memory usage. CIDFont-F1 stands as a standard bearer for this transition, bridging the gap between early bitmap fonts and modern Unicode-based OpenType standards. The CIDFont-F1 font is typically used in Asian
Cidfont-f1 is a font format developed by Adobe Systems in the 1990s. The "CID" in Cidfont-f1 stands for "Character ID," which refers to the unique identifier assigned to each character in the font. The "f1" suffix indicates that it's a font specifically designed for use with Adobe's PostScript language.
created when a PDF is exported with missing or incorrectly embedded font information