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Aug 14, 2025 11:11 AM UTC
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Illustrator no longer updating when new fonts added, without restarting.

Not sure if this is a bug, or if it has been removed. But while loaded, Illustrator no longer seems to update the fonts list, if a new font is installed. Meaning a restart of Illustrator is necessary, if you want the newly installed fonts to show.

It used to do it, but now it needs a restart.

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jdietz72
Participating Frequently
Oct 5, 2025 6:19 PM UTC

This is happening in Photoshop as well 😞

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Participant
Oct 2, 2025 10:59 PM UTC

Tengo todo el dia revisando este problema. mi solucion ha sido instalar la version 29.7.1 y desactivar las actualizaciones automaticas de illustrator en Creative Cloud. Miestras Adobe soluciona el problema

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Inspiring
Oct 2, 2025 3:17 PM UTC

This is still happening and is very annoying. This was a bad move to remove this feature.  I also stinks of Adobe purposefully trying to make it inconvenient to use fonts outside their own ecosystem.

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Participant
Oct 1, 2025 8:01 AM UTC

So Adobe brought out an Illustrator update, but didn't fix this... sad

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Participant
Sep 30, 2025 11:11 PM UTC

Adobe Fonts update instantly but when I "install a font" Illustrator does not recognize it. I could have sworn it did that in the past.

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Participant
Sep 30, 2025 3:43 PM UTC

also having the same issue! 😞

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BardicHeartache
Participant
Sep 29, 2025 5:50 PM UTC

I am! Noticed it the other day.

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Smriti Capoor
Community Manager
Sep 29, 2025 4:32 AM UTC

Hello @Delresto are you facing this issue as well?

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Smriti, Product Marketing, Adobe Illustrator
Known Participant
Sep 26, 2025 8:22 AM UTC

I still think that adobe shouldn't remove a feature so useful

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Participating Frequently
Sep 23, 2025 9:27 AM UTC

Currently on 30.0.48

So I did some quick testing, as requested. My testing results:

- OTF installed via Windows Font Viewer - doesn't work
- OTF copied manually to windows/fonts folder - doesn't work
- OTF to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator (Beta)\Support Files\Required\Fonts - works!

- TTF installed via Windows Font Viewer - doesn't work
- TTF copied manually to windows/fonts folder - doesn't work
- TTF to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator (Beta)\Support Files\Required\Fonts - works!

So it seems that copying to the dedicated Illustrator fonts folder, it works. But copying/installing to the system fonts folder doesn't work.

I don't use the dedicated folder as a rule because I want the fonts accessible to the other adobe products. So I hadn't thought to check that before. But it seems that it works for the dedicated folder, just not the system folder.

Hope that helps.

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