A font is a set of characters—letters, numbers, and symbols—that share a common weight, width, and style, such as 10‑pt Adobe Garamond Bold.Typefaces (often called type families or font families) are collections of fonts that share an overall appearance, and are designed to be used together, such as Adobe Garamond.A type style is a variant version of an individual font in a font family. Typically, the Roman or Plain (the actual name varies from family to family) member of a font family is the base font, which may include type styles such as regular, bold, semibold, italic, and bold italic.
OpenType fonts may include an expanded character set and layoutfeatures to provide richer linguistic support and advanced typographiccontrol. OpenType fonts from Adobe that include support for centralEuropean (CE) languages include the word “Pro,” as part of the fontname in application font menus. OpenType fonts that don’t containcentral European language support are labeled “Standard,” and havean “Std” suffix. All OpenType fonts can also be installed and usedalongside PostScript Type 1 and TrueType fonts.For more information on OpenType fonts, see. To quickly find fonts that you use frequently, you can perform the following actions in the Fonts tab of the Character panel or the Properties panel:.
In the Classification Filter drop-down list, select your preferred font classes to narrow down the font list. By default, all font classes are displayed.Note: Only Roman fonts can be filtered using this filter.
Set the frequently used fonts as favorites. To do this, click the Favorite icon displayed next to the font name when you hover over it. To filter all the favorite fonts in the font list, click the Show only Favorites filter. Select fonts that are recently installed on your local system. The recently used fonts are displayed on top in the font list.Note: Recently used and starred fonts are preserved across Illustrator sessions. To search for fonts based on the visual similarity, click the View Similar icon ( ) that appears when you hover over a font. Fonts closest in visual appearance to the selected font appear on top in the search results.In the Control panel, set the Font and Font Style options.In the Type menu, select a name from the Font or Recent Fonts submenu.
Using the Font menu is convenient because it displays a preview of the available fonts.In the Character panel, set the Font Family and Font Style options. In addition to choosing a name from the pop‑up menus, you can click the current name and type in the first few characters of the name you want.Tip: To change the number of fonts in the Recent Fonts submenu, choose Edit Preferences Type (Windows) or Illustrator Preferences Type (macOS), and set the Number Of Recent Fonts option. Navigate to the following location:(Windows)OSDiskUsersusernameAppDataRoamingAdobeAdobe Illustrator version numberSettingsenUSx64New Document Profiles(macOS)Macintosh HD User username Library Application Support Adobe Adobe Illustrator version number Language folder New Document ProfilesNotes:. Replace username with your account name. Replace version number with the following values, depending on the version of Illustrator that you have installed on your system. For more information, see. You cannot directly edit the document profile file on the above mentioned location.
Copy the file to a different location and then edit the file.