Converting outlines on a SVG font

[SundayGladiator]

Found posts here on making something SVG, but I want to get rid of the SVG. 🙂

I have this fantastic looking font in my Illustrator (29.0.1) that has an SVG version. I want to create outlines on the SVG font (looks way better than its Vector version of font), but I get just bounding boxes around the letters.

What's the trick?

[Nix Houston]

It looks like there might be a clipping mask, and your letters are masking a texture. Right click and see if you can "Release Clipping Mask". 

If that works, you'll seperate the texture and the actual shape of the letter.

[SundayGladiator]

Nope. No clipping mask on the font.

[SundayGladiator · Accepted solution]

Enjoy solving my own technotes - 😊

Select font > Image Trace > Expand.