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June 30, 2023
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Athelas font

  • June 30, 2023
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Hi all, can someone please tell me why Athelas font linear figures are missing in Illustrator? Thanx!

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    Ton Frederiks
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    June 30, 2023

    There is, at least on my machine, something strange with the Athelas font. 

    The Glyph panel shows for some figures: No Unicode, which may partly explain your problem.

    It seems like a default font installed on my Mac, and when I look at the Font Details in the Document Info panel, it says:

    Font Details:
    Athelas-Regular

    PostScript Name: Athelas-Regular

    Mac Font Name: "Athelas"

    Mac Font File: "/System/Library/Fonts/Helvetica.ttc"

    Which is strange because it does not look like Helvetica and there is no Athelas to be found in that location.

    Looking further there is a Supplemental folder that contains the font, which can of course not be removed without witchcraft.

    olicarlaAuthor
    Participant
    June 30, 2023

    Thanx for the replies! The issue is that every number must be changed by hand using the Glyphs palette, or with find and replace in InDesign. It does not change them with Open Type and requires a lot of work instead ;/

    Community Expert
    June 30, 2023

    Linear figures? Are you talking about the different number sets contained in the typeface? As far as I can tell they're all there (proportional lining, tabular lining, tabular old style, numerator figures, denominator figures, slashed zero and a whole bunch of pre-made fractions). Each style of Athleas has 841 glyphs and it looks like they're all there in the version hosted by Adobe Fonts.

     

    IMHO, the Character palette in Illustrator is not as user friendly as it should be. The user has to click on additional fly out menus to access some character sets. Sometimes I hunt through the Glyphs palette instead. CorelDRAW was very late to the OpenType party, but I do like the feature where you can highlight a text string and click a down arrow to reveal a flyout of many OTF style options. Illustrator sort of does this, but to a far more limited degree.

    Monika Gause
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    June 30, 2023

    Could you please post a screenshot of the issue?

    Are the glyphs there in other software?