Font in illustrator

 Looking for the right font for your artwork? Learn how to access, activate, and edit a font that's perfect for your typographic design.

Illustrator automatically imports and loads all fonts that are installed on your Windows or macOS. To use a new font, you must download that font on your computer. For more details, see Add a new font.

 Before you start, type your text using the Type tool. For more details, see Create text.

To view and browse through a wide variety of font families and font types:

• Open the Character panel. Do one of the following:
  • Choose Windows > Type > Character.
    
  • Select the text to view Character settings in the Control panel or Properties panel.
  • Press Command+T (macOS) or Ctrl+T (Windows).
• Click the Set Font Family drop-down. 

 To look for a font, you can type the font name (if you know it already) in the Font family drop-down in the Character panel or Control panel.

Preview fonts in real time

1. Select a text on your artboard or choose a sample text from the drop-down.
2. Hover the pointer over a font name in the font list available in the Control panel or Character panel.

To turn off the preview, deselect Preferences > Type > Enable in-menu font previews.

Change the text size while previewing by clicking Sample Size small, Sample Size medium, and Sample Size large icons.

Preview fonts

Auto-activate missing fonts

When an Illustrator document contains any missing Adobe Fonts, they are automatically activated if all the fonts are available in Adobe Fonts. This task runs in the background without displaying the Missing Fonts dialog. 

When Auto-activate Adobe Fonts is enabled

By default, this Auto-activate Adobe Fonts is disabled in Illustrator. To enable, select Auto-activate Adobe Fonts from Edit > Preferences > File Handling.

When Auto-activate Adobe Fonts is enabled

If there are missing fonts in your document, then Illustrator checks and automatically activates fonts from Adobe Fonts site as per the below scenarios:

• If all the missing fonts are available in Adobe Fonts, they are activated in the background. You can continue to work with documents.
• If only some of the missing fonts are available in Adobe Fonts, they are activated in the background. A Missing Fonts dialog appears with a list of missing fonts. 
  • Click Replace Fonts and get the missing fonts from other sources or
  • Close the dialog. The missing fonts will be replaced with default fonts.  
• If none of the missing fonts are available in Adobe Fonts, a Missing Fonts dialog appears with a list of missing fonts.

You can also check the progress of activation of missing fonts in Background Tasks panel. To view the background tasks, use one of the below two options: 

• Click Window > Utilities > Background Tasks.
• Click the blue spinner icon in the upper-right corner of Illustrator application header.

Activate Adobe Fonts

Not found that right font? Activate more fonts from Adobe fonts.

You can choose a font from the Adobe's subscription-based online fonts library (Adobe Fonts) that offers unlimited high-quality fonts from hundreds of type foundries. Browse and activate these fonts instantly from within Illustrator or go to fonts.adobe.com. Activated fonts become available for use in all Creative Cloud applications.

1. In the Character panel, click the Find More tab.
   
2. Browse the font list and select a font. To preview the font on the selected text, hover over the font name.
3. Click the Activate icon displayed next to the font. The Activate icon shows a check mark after the font is activated and available for use.

View and activate Adobe fonts

KNOW MORE ABOUT ADOBE FONT ICONS

A. Activated fonts filter B. Activated family font C. Font to be activated D. Activated font E. Deactivated font F. Activate font G. Font activation in progress H. Font family drop-down I. Number of font family styles J. More details about this font 

LOOKING FOR A JAPANESE FONT?

In the Find More tab, you can browse and preview all Japanese fonts available on fonts.adobe.com. 

To set the preference to enable the preview of Japanese fonts:

1. Choose Edit > Preferences > Type.
2. Select Enable Japanese Font Preview in 'Find More'.

The changes are applied only when you relaunch Illustrator.

MORE RESOURCES

 Watch this video to quickly get started with Adobe Fonts.

Read this blog: 20 Creative Ways to Use Adobe Fonts (You May Have Missed)

Organize and filter fonts

You can quickly find fonts that you use frequently and filter them in the Fonts tab of the Character panel or Properties panel.

A. Classification filter B. Favorites C. Show recently added D. Activated font E. Sample text options F. Sample text size options G. Font type H. Add to favorites I. View similar