A font is a complete 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.

In addition to the fonts installed on your system, you can also create the following folders and use fonts installed in them:

Windows

Program Files/Common Files/Adobe/Fonts

Mac OS

Library/Application Support/Adobe/Fonts

If you install a Type 1, TrueType, OpenType, or CID font into the local Fonts folder, the font appears in Adobe applications only.

OpenType fonts use a single font file for both Windows® and Macintosh® computers, so you can move files from one platform to another without worrying about font substitution and other problems that cause text to reflow. They may include a number of features, such as swashes and discretionary ligatures, that aren’t available in current PostScript and TrueType fonts.

OpenType fonts display the  icon.

When working with an OpenType font, you can automatically substitute alternate glyphs, such as ligatures, small capitals, fractions, and old style proportional figures, in your text.

Regular (left) and OpenType (right) fonts

A.

Ordinals

B.

Discretionary ligatures

C.

Swashes

OpenType fonts may include an expanded character set and layout features to provide richer linguistic support and advanced typographic control. OpenType fonts from Adobe that include support for central European (CE) languages include the word “Pro,” as part of the font name in application font menus. OpenType fonts that don’t contain central European language support are labeled “Standard,” and have an “Std” suffix. All OpenType fonts can also be installed and used alongside PostScript Type 1 and TrueType fonts.

For more information on OpenType fonts, see www.adobe.com/go/opentype.

You can view samples of a font in the font family and font style menus in the Character panel and other areas in the application from where you can choose fonts. The following icons are used to indicate different kinds of fonts:

• OpenType

• Type 1

• TrueType

• Multiple Master

• Composite

  You can turn off the preview feature or change the point size of the font names or font samples in Type preferences.

1. Select the characters or type objects you want to change. If you don’t select any text, the font applies to new text you create.
2. Select a font family and style using the Control panel, Type menu, or Character panel:

   • 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.

     To change the number of fonts in the Recent Fonts submenu, choose Edit > Preferences > Type (Windows) or Illustrator > Preferences > Type (Mac OS), and set the Number Of Recent Fonts option.

1. Select the characters or type objects you want to change. If you don’t select any text, the typeface size applies to new text you create.
2. Do one of the following:

   • In the Character panel or Control bar set the Font Size option.

   • Choose a size from the Type > Size menu. Choosing Other lets you type a new size in the Character panel.

     You can change the unit of measurement for type in the Preferences dialog box. This option is not available in Fireworks.

1. Choose Type > Find Font.
   Move the Find Font dialog box so that you can see all the text in your document.
2. Select the name of a font you want to find in the top section of the dialog box. The first occurrence of the font is highlighted in the document window.
3. Select a replacement font in the bottom section of the dialog box. You can customize the list of replacement fonts by doing the following:

   • Choose an option from the Replace With Font From pop‑up menu: Document to list only the fonts that are used in the document or System to list all fonts on your computer.

   • Select the kinds of fonts you want to include in the list; deselect the kinds of fonts you don’t want to include.

4. Do one of the following:

   • Click Change to change just one occurrence of the selected font.

   • Click Change All to change all occurrences of the selected font.

     When there are no more occurrences of a font in your document, its name is removed from the Fonts in Document list.

5. Repeat steps 2 through 4 to find and replace a different font.
6. Click Done to close the dialog box.
   Note: When you replace a font using the Find Font command, all other type attributes remain the same.

• To substitute missing fonts with a different font, select the text that uses the missing font and apply any other available font.
• To make missing fonts available in Illustrator, either install the missing fonts on your system or activate the missing fonts using a font management application.
• To highlight substituted fonts in pink, choose File >Document Setup, and select Highlight Substituted Fonts (and Highlighted Substituted Glyphs, if desired), and then click OK.