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xmgincca
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February 5, 2018
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Times Roman Bold font design different in Illustrator

  • February 5, 2018
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On all of our Macs, when we look at the font design "R" in Illustrator with Times Roman Bold, the gap closes in as you can see in these screenshots below.

Wondering if others are seeing this too. Aside from creating outlines in other apps and bringing it into Illustrator, I'm wondering if there is a way to make Illustrator read the fonts properly. Any suggestions much appreciated.

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FontExplorer:

Adobe Illustrator CC 22.0.1:

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    Monika Gause
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    Monika GauseCommunity Expert
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    February 5, 2018

    Looks like this.

    Are you sure you selected the same TNR?

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    xmginccaAuthor
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    February 5, 2018

    Thanks Monika. That to me looks like Times New Roman based on the longer narrower serif. I'm actually trying to get the regular Times Bold to work. It's very odd that Fontbook, Font Explorer and non-CC apps can see it properly. I notice Photoshop does the same as Illustrator. (Edit: Sorry, I realized I should have removed "Roman" from the question )

    Times Bold

    Times New Roman Bold

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    xmginccaAuthor
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    February 5, 2018

    Update:

    By forcing the postscript version of Times Bold to activate via Font Explorer, the true font design now works in Illustrator.

    I still find it strange why Adobe Illustrator can't render the Mac OS Times.dfont properly when others can. Is this a localized issue or are other .dfont or other fonts not rendering properly? (at first glance, I don't think anyone would question the R looking odd in a sentence. It was just a curiosity that lead to finding this inconsistent font issue... Just curious now if any other fonts have this issue.

    (note this has been consistent on 2 other macs in our office all having the same issue with the Mac's system times.dfont - PS: not that I'm advocating people to start using Times font, but just found this interesting...)

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