Permanently set default font in illustrator

[donnp23165421]

Please enable or create an easy way to permanently set default font in illustrator

[Ton Frederiks]

It is not easy, but it can be done:

To change the default font you need to change the New Document Profile that you use to base your new documents on, like Print.ai, Art & Illustration.ai, Web.ai.

Open the profile you want to modify from:

Mac: (User)/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Illustrator version number/language folder/New Document Profiles

Win: C:\Users\....AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator version number Settings\language folder\x64\New Document Profiles

Open the Window > Type > Character Styles panel.

Double click the [Normal Character Style] and change the font in the Basic Character Formats.

Save the file.

You may have to save the file to your desktop first and replace the original after that.

I prefer to have set my Preferences to Use legacy “File New” interface to make it easier to select the presets.

[Ton Frederiks · Accepted solution]

And you may want to vote here:

https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-desktop-feature-requests/suggestions/459...

[Inanealex2013]

Thanks Ton. I've tried this and while the style [normal character style] keeps the font change, and the font menu keeps the font change, as soon as I add a new text item the font immediately switches back to Myriad.

[Ton Frederiks]

I am not but there is a font switching bug at the moment that could cause this.

Try turning og Missing Glyph protection in Preferences > Type and have a look at:

https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-desktop-bugs/suggestions/49111304-font-c...

[donnp23165421]

yep...that'll do it Ton. Let's see how well the new formating (default font) sticks through the updates.

thanks for lening a hand...

[Ton Frederiks]

Good to hear that helped. I would suggest to make a copy of the preset file just in case it gets overwritten by an update.