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ihector
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November 6, 2020
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Google Material Icons font has stopped working in Illustrator

  • November 6, 2020
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I have had Google's Material Icons font installed on my MacBook for a long while and have frequently used it with no problems in Illustrator. Suddenly it has stopped rendering. The font is not missing – and it still works in other Adobe apps – but it displays without any visibility (see text selected in screenshot).

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Correct answer Ton Frederiks

But that's exactly how they do work (or did, until yesterday)! And they continue to work like that in XD, for example: https://streamable.com/59cgy0


I learned something new!

Type wifi and you get the wifi icon!

So that works for me in 2021 (25.0).

But I put the font into the Illustrator application folder in a folder I named Fonts, maybe that makes a diffrence.

Or try to reset the AI preferences:

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/setting-preferences.html

 

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November 1, 2022
Monika Gause
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November 6, 2020

Which system is it?

Do you use font management?

ihector
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November 6, 2020

Hi Monika. I installed the font on my MacBook (OS 10.15.7) using Font Book. Running the latest Illustrator 2021.

Ton Frederiks
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Community Expert
November 6, 2020

Are the icons visible in the Glyphs panel?