Choosing a font familyA font family is a complete set of characters, letters, and symbols of a particular typeface design. For example, the font used in this paragraph is Minion®. You can choose a font from the Character palette, or you can choose Type > Font and choose from the submenu. You do not see fonts in their respective faces in the palette or submenu, even when you have a utility that shows typefaces installed (such as Adobe Type Reunion®). Note: When you open an Illustrator file on a Japanese system, the Font Details dialog box appears, showing the font format and Tsume information format for fonts used in the file. If the fonts in the file are different from those available on your system, the Font Issues dialog box appears, providing information about font substitution. To choose a font from the Character palette:
Note: Font styles are not available for Kanji fonts. To choose a font from the Type menu:
Note: When using 2-byte fonts, you can switch between showing a font's name in a 2-byte script or showing the font in its English name by selecting or deselecting the Show Font Names in English option in the Type & Auto Tracing Preferences dialog box. |