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January 31, 2023
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Font changes from Open Sans to Helvetica while typing the letter L

I am currently working on an AE comp (v. 23.1.o Build 83 - Mac OS Monterey v 12.6). I created a new comp and some text layers and discovered when typing the word "PEOPLE", the letter L automatically shows up as lower case and when I try to type it UPPER case it changes the font to Helvetica. It only happens when using the Extra Bold font style. 

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Participant
August 3, 2025

Restarting AE seems to have fixed it... for now.

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Participant
August 3, 2025

It's happening for me too. Whenever I type the letter H in a custom font, it changes to Helvetica.

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Participant
May 21, 2025

Same, also forcing the first letter to Times New Roman

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Participant
May 1, 2025

Currently having this same issue. The only way I can maintain the same font is by holding shift. It just randomly started. Like, a minute ago everything was fine then suddenly, the next time I type, it keeps forcing me to use times new roman

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Participant
April 9, 2025

@JohnColombo17100380  I guess at this point there is enough info to regognize this as a problem with some manually added fonts.

My problem is related to "Mona Sans" that was downloaded from Google Fonts.

No faux settings.

Normal text, Cappital or lower letters, mostly - t , n , m and numbers and more often when the weight is selected to "Light". 

If I manually select the broken letter and I set it to Mona Sans it works. If I change the font and go back to Mona Sans I have to manually fix the broken characters again. 

 

Running Windows 11 and After Effects 25.2.0 

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Participant
April 7, 2025

same problem, pls fix it, it's annoying

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Participant
March 21, 2025

I also am having this issue with capital S in Montserrat changing to Helvetica?

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Participant
March 18, 2025

I can confirm. I have the same problem. Font that was installed in my system changes to Times New Roman mid typing or a single letter or number will be in that font.

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doobysquish
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March 7, 2025

This just happened to me while using a custom font--the solution was to restart AE.

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Participant
February 27, 2025

Also still noticing this on every 16th character typed locking into Helvetica and not allowing the font to change

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