Alisha font doesn't look like the preview.

[ramap6474]

Hello Fellow Creatives,

I've activated the 'Alisha' font (by Laura Worthington Type) available through Adobe. Once I typed something into Illustrator with this font, it looked nothing like the preview on the Adobe Fonts page. This has never happened to me before.
Any idea what the issue could be? Below is a screenshot comparison done in Illustrator of what the font should look like.

 

Thanks in advance!

 

[Bobby Henderson]

Obviously a different typeface is being rendered rather than Alisha. The Alisha typeface has no glyphs that look like that. I'm able to sync it and preview it properly. The first troubleshooting step should be making sure you're signed into the Creative Cloud application. Also check the Adobe Fonts web site to make sure you're signed in there.
https://fonts.adobe.com/

Test other fonts you have synced to make sure they're working properly. You might try removing and re-synching Alisha to see if it will load properly.

Next, is your computer running any font management applications? Is your computer running other graphics applications at the same time as Adobe Illustrator? I'm asking this question because I've seen weird conflicts myself between CorelDRAW, its built-in font manager and Adobe Illustrator. I can't have both applications running at the same time without the font menu in Illustrator being affected. CorelDRAW has some of its own internal problems handling fonts.

[ramap6474]

Hi Bobby,

Thank you for replying so quickly! Alas, I've done everything that you mentioned. We don't use Corel here at work, just Adobe products. I've even restarted my computer and apps, but it's still showing up the same. Thanks

[creative_curiosity1549 · Accepted solution]

Do you perhaps have another fonts with the same name installed? Or did you have in the past?

You might need to do some serious debugging: https://helpx.adobe.com/fonts/kb/troubleshoot-fonts-illustrator-indesign.html 

[Bobby Henderson]

This might indeed be the problem. Just doing a quick web search turned up this typeface with the same name at a commonly used free fonts web site:
https://www.dafont.com/alisha-2.font
The glyphs preview looks very similar to the example in the first post. It's likely this font is installed in the system and somehow cancelling out the Adobe Fonts version of Alisha from Laura Worthington.

[ramap6474]

Hi,

No, this is the first time I've installed the Alisha font. I've activated it and de-activated it a few times and have restarted my computer as well:
MacOS Monterey | MacBook Pro | 15-inch, 2019 | 2.3 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9 | 32 GB 2400 MHz DDR4

[Ton Frederiks]

What do you see if you select Font Details? If it is showing a path to the local font file, delete that font in that location.

[ramap6474]

Hi again, I'm pleased to announce that I deleted the Alisha font from Font Book. I typed something in Illustrator with the Alisha font again and Presto! It worked! You all saved the day! Thank you so much!

[creative_curiosity1549]

Glad you could get it to work.

[ramap6474]

Thank you so much, Monika!!

[juan_2420]

Hello, to anyone else having an issue were the font does not look like the preview try switching the font from sharp to another setting. I had a font that did not look right untill I switch the setting to smooth. The drop down menu is to the right of the size menu. 

[Bobby Henderson]

Are you using Adobe Illustrator? I don't see a "Smooth" option for font rendering for the Fit type family in Illustrator. Aside from that, Fit is a very demanding display typeface meant for unique design situations. The type has to be set at big sizes to be legible. The lettering will look best on monitors with native Ultra High Definition resolution or better.

[christopher_0308]

So this is old but there should be an option under typeface that is called "OpenType" and you can change these things.