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Font changes from Open Sans to Helvetica while typing the letter L

Community Beginner ,
Jan 31, 2023 Jan 31, 2023

I am currently working on an AE comp (v. 23.1.o Build 83 - Mac OS Monterey v 12.6). I created a new comp and some text layers and discovered when typing the word "PEOPLE", the letter L automatically shows up as lower case and when I try to type it UPPER case it changes the font to Helvetica. It only happens when using the Extra Bold font style. 

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Adobe Employee ,
Feb 13, 2023 Feb 13, 2023

Thank you for reporting this - it is intensely interesting to me because of recent work that I have been doing with fonts.

 

So far I have seen this internally somewhat randomly with OpenTypeVariable fonts exercised via scripting but it seems hard to image why that might be the only trigger.

 

Can you tell me what font (okay Open Sans) and font version and where you got it where you are seeing this?

 

Are you using faux (bold/italics/etc) settings?

 

Are you using small caps setting?

 

Anything else out of the ordinary to note? Any success in getting to go away? Fonts where it never happens? Only capitals?

 

Douglas Waterfall

After Effects Engineering

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Adobe Employee ,
Feb 13, 2023 Feb 13, 2023

Per @Douglas_Waterfall's response, changing the thread status to Needs More Info.

-- John, After Effects Engineering Team 

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New Here ,
May 22, 2023 May 22, 2023

Hi! I have the same problem on Windows. The difference here is that "P" changes automatically from Open Sans Regular to Myriad Pro

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Community Beginner ,
Sep 17, 2024 Sep 17, 2024

I'm having the same problem but with the letter A and the font Unbounded in regular, it changes to Helvetica regular by itself

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New Here ,
Sep 18, 2024 Sep 18, 2024

I'm also having the same issue, the capital U automatically changes from Dharma Gothic E to Times New Roman.

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New Here ,
Sep 18, 2024 Sep 18, 2024

For what its worth, I found a 'solution' by typing the text into a different composition and copying the text to the original spot.

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Participant ,
Jan 02, 2025 Jan 02, 2025

Same issue here, just with the letter "O", changes to Times New Roman and won't be corrected. Everything is updated.
The font I want to use is Blender Pro which works fine in every other Adobe App. It only occours with the style "Heavy".

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New Here ,
Feb 19, 2025 Feb 19, 2025

has this been since figured out? Im trying to write text in Oswald, but the lowercase r's jump to times new roman with no way of changing them back

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New Here ,
Feb 27, 2025 Feb 27, 2025

Also still noticing this on every 16th character typed locking into Helvetica and not allowing the font to change

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Explorer ,
Mar 07, 2025 Mar 07, 2025

This just happened to me while using a custom font--the solution was to restart AE.

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Community Beginner ,
Mar 18, 2025 Mar 18, 2025

I can confirm. I have the same problem. Font that was installed in my system changes to Times New Roman mid typing or a single letter or number will be in that font.

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New Here ,
Mar 20, 2025 Mar 20, 2025

I also am having this issue with capital S in Montserrat changing to Helvetica?

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New Here ,
Apr 07, 2025 Apr 07, 2025

same problem, pls fix it, it's annoying

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Community Beginner ,
Apr 09, 2025 Apr 09, 2025
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@JohnColombo  I guess at this point there is enough info to regognize this as a problem with some manually added fonts.

My problem is related to "Mona Sans" that was downloaded from Google Fonts.

No faux settings.

Normal text, Cappital or lower letters, mostly - t , n , m and numbers and more often when the weight is selected to "Light". 

If I manually select the broken letter and I set it to Mona Sans it works. If I change the font and go back to Mona Sans I have to manually fix the broken characters again. 

 

Running Windows 11 and After Effects 25.2.0 

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