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jr73507201
jr73507201
Participant
January 28, 2019
Question

Typekit Font Weights listing as Separate Fonts [2019]

  • January 28, 2019
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I use typekit  for the main font I use in design at my job, and I use it in several different weights from light to extrabold. Recently, some of the different weights are being listed in the Illustrator font menu as totally separate fonts. Why are they being separated from the other weights in that font family, and is there a way to fix this? It's become very annoying when I need to switch between weights and cant use the weight dropdown.

 

 

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hackkerouac
hackkerouac
Participant
July 17, 2025

I'm having the same issue and it clearly isn't by design. In illustrator, recently, different weights now appear ungrouped with the font. 'Regular' weight is now its own font, for no apparent reason. Same for 'light italic' and 'bold italic'. All other weights are grouped with the font. Odd bug and annoying.

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Adobe Employee
benw525841597154115
Adobe Employee
January 29, 2019

Hi jr,

I'm sorry you ran into trouble here. Could you tell me the font you're working with? This depends on a few things. The designer of the font could have split things up this way for certain reasons. This might be required to keep things somewhat consistent across platforms and apps, even non-Adobe apps.

Let me know what font you’re using and we'll take it from there.

Cheers,

Benjamin

jr73507201
jr73507201Author
Participant
January 29, 2019

The font is Proxima Nova. When I first downloaded it all the font weights were together, over time they started to become separate.

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Adobe Employee
benw525841597154115
Adobe Employee
February 1, 2019

Hi jr,

Thanks for letting me know. Proxima Nova is a typeface with many, many weights and styles. For this reason, when the font is activated, Proxima Nova and Proxima Nova Condensed are listed as their own fonts in some font menus, as an example. This is fairly typical when it comes to fonts with plenty of styles to make things a little easier to find and for technical limitations of some apps when using larger font families.

Are you seeing every style of Proxima Nova listed separately in Illustrator's font menu or are they grouped as I've described above? Let me know and we'll take it from there.

Cheers,

Benjamin

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