How to remove the Acumin Variable Concept Font

[maxwell330624900oxg]

OK, SO I HAVE SEEN A FEW POSTS ON THIS AND NONE OF THE REMEDIES WORKED. IVE GONE INTO THE RESOURCE FOLDERS IN INDESIGN, I CHECKED EVERY FONT FOLDER, AND STILL I CAN NOT FIND THIS FONT TO GET RID OF. ANYONE HAVE ANY LUCK?

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[Ton Frederiks · Accepted solution]

This font is part of the Illustrator application. I anm afraid that if you remove it, it will come back with the next update.

[Srishti Bali]

Hi @maxwell330624900oxg

Ton is correct. This font is installed on your machine with the Illustrator application, and you can find it under Support Files > Required > Fonts in the Illustrator application folder. May I ask why you want to remove this font? 

Regards,

Srishti

[maxwell330624900oxg]

This font does not copy over well with tabs from illustrator to photoshop, yet it's always a go to condensed font to use, so i just wanted to get it out of the mix. 

[Anubhav M]

Hello @maxwell330624900oxg,

Thanks for sharing the details. As posted earlier, this font is installed as a part of the Illustrator application and I would recommend not to remove it.

Feel free to reach out if you have more questions or need assistance. We'd be happy to help.

Anubhav

[martinp9589572]

Is there a way to remove it for good even when illustrator is updated? I want to use Acumin Pro, but t seems like the Variable concept is overrinding it so i am not able to use it. Besides it has lots of missing glyphs and and lack support for many languaage, it's "bloatware" at this point. 

[Bobby Henderson]

To remove the Acumin Variable Concept font file on the Windows platform you have to find and delete the font file in this folder:
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator 2025\Support Files\Required\Fonts

You'll have to do the delete process every time Illustrator gets a full update.

I'm not seeing a conflict between Acumin VF and Acumin Variable Concept. The two fonts get along just fine in my computer system.

[fashionable_being15A7]

In my case, upon saving AI files, when I reopen them, each letter/glyph is suddenly out of the text box and appearing as a separate element on the artboard. Half my text (also Acumin) is fine, but the other half is doing this. I noticed it happening in half my files I worked on yesterday. Seems to be no way to fix it.. 

[Monika Gause]

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@fashionable_being15A7  schrieb:

In my case, upon saving AI files, when I reopen them, each letter/glyph is suddenly out of the text box and appearing as a separate element on the artboard. Half my text (also Acumin) is fine, but the other half is doing this. I noticed it happening in half my files I worked on yesterday. Seems to be no way to fix it.. 

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Are you sure you saved them as AI files? And not PDF?

[fashionable_being15A7]

Yes, very sure. I've been troubleshooting for 2 days. All files are AI. Some are okay, some not. I managed to get it to work for now. I saw Adobe Fonts had installed versions of Acumin Pro so I deactivated those (all versions outside Illustrator). Then I saved as new files, not over the existing ones, and they seem okay for now. Hopefully that's the end of it.