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Remove Myriad Pro from all Adobe apps forever

Forum|Forum|9 years ago
February 25, 2017
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I do not like Myriad Pro and want to remove it from being the default for pretty much everything Adobe makes. Starting new files with templates saved with a different fonts open with Myriad as the default font. What happens if I just delete that entire font file from the computer? Will our entire Adobe DC suite have a giant fit?

Thanks,

Jack

Correct answer Ton Frederiks

Obviously I have no clue how to change the default font. Where is that magic clickie to do that? If I click on type I see this, with Myiad selected.

I change that to another font and then save that as a template.

I open a file from that template and bingo, back to Myriad as the default font.

Although all I want is a blank sheet with something other than Myriad as the default font I try selecting the font I want putting in some bogus text in that font and saving that as a template. Go back and open a new file from that template and although my bogus text is in the proper font Myriad is again the default font.

I am obviously doing something profoundly stupid here, but I cannot seem to kill Myriad as the default font.

Thanks,

Jack

Create a new document in the color mode and size that you want.

Choose: Window > Type > Character Styles

Double Click the "Normal Character Style"

Choose the Basic Character Formats option

Change the Font Family to something you like

Click OK

Save the file with a recognizable name in the New Document Profiles folder

To make it easier to find when you create a new document:

In the Illustrator Preferences > General check the Use legacy "File New" interface

You can choose your preset when you create a new file

chanaart

Community Expert

You cn create your own prset file for Illustrator and use other fonts.

InIndesign go to preferences when no document are open and choose any font you want.

Or just diusable Myriad..we got to pick our battels.....

rickhino

Inspiring

This is the most appalling part of Adobe's user interface. Every time I want to start a new document in ANY Adobe app, it gives me Myriad Pro (BLECCHH!). You'd think Adobe would be a little more user-friendly after all these years of people bitching about this.

If I work for a company and we have design standards, it would make it MUCH easier if I could globally set the default font style in ALL Adobe products. Instead, I have to spend hours searching the web for a process that doesn't seem to exit. THIS is where Adobe always falls short. They are so worried about programming the latest whiz-bang feature that they forget the basics. And like a baseball team that doesn't practice the basics, they look great in spring training but they NEVER make it to the world Series.

Monika Gause

Community Expert

"they NEVER make it to the world Series"

Oh, really? Have you taken a look at the stock market lately?

All the apps offer the possiblity to create templates of some sort. What's so difficult about reading the documentation and then creating templates? Referring to the official documentation, not Youtube.

rickhino

Inspiring

"What's so difficult about reading the documentation and then creating templates?"

Nice snark, Monika! Loosen up your man bun, girl. No need to get personal. Ross might fall for specious arguments, but not me.

I stick with my NEVER statement. As long as I've been using Adobe products, they've been putting speed bumps in the workflow. Adobe is JUST starting to get their documentation in order, so nice try Monika.

That you value their stock price over the creation of a user-friendly interface tells me all I need to know. HAIL HAIL the OLIGARCHS! How many document and or media styles do you work with? Adobe is asking me to create "template" and "libraries" for EVERY type of art I make in EVERY program I use. It would take their programmers MAYBE 100 hours to create a solution for this. Instead, they make their users collectively spend millionsd of hours finding workarounds.

MKAP10

Inspiring

Hi Ton,

I'm trying to make this work (I too hate Myriad Pro) but it keeps telling me that I don't have access privileges to save a file in the New Document Profiles folder. Any suggestions?

Thanks,

-mk

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

Save your modified file to your desktop and manually move it to the New Document Profiles folder (you may need your computer admin password)

(I like Myriad Pro)

MKAP10

Inspiring

Thanks much! Now if I can figure out how to get Myriad off of Keynote (but that's probably not Adobe's fault.....)

S

starbird parrot

Known Participant

I do not see anything that says 'normal'. I am fighting with this problem endlessly. I need to use a particular font NOT THAT STUPID MYRIAD PRO and it is at the other end of the alphabet. I leave it on what I want and open the next image and it REVERTS TO THAT STUPID MYRIAD and I have to scroll through a hundred fonts to get back to what I want.

I hate this and it wastes my time which Adobe has no right to do. I want to use the one I need and I want it to remain in place until I CHANGE IT, not adobe.

Can this happen and if so how?

Thank you.

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

https://forums.adobe.com/people/starbird+parrot wrote
I do not see anything that says 'normal'.

Read my answer above:

Choose: Window > Type > Character Styles

Double Click the "Normal Character Style"

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starbird parrot

Known Participant

As mentioned earlier, I do not see the word normal anywhere. I received an email saying you had a reply but cannot locate it by clicking the link. It shouldn't matter but I'm on a Mac.

Thanks

J

jackt65511718Author

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I appreciate y'all taking the time to get back to me on this, but I'm working with Illustrator CC 21.0.2 64-bit on Windoze 10. The *_RGB & *_CYMK.aip files appear to be for previous versions. There are a ton of *.aip files in the Illustrator folder, but not seem to be clearly what I'm looking for.

That being the case I'm thinking what I'll do is copy all Myriad font files from my c: drive to a backup; note what folder they are in and then delete them. Make copies of the font I want as default, rename them as Myiad, and put them in the folders as replacements.

I shouldn't have to change the default font for every time I start a new Illustrator file. That is not a feature. I see that as arrogance on the part of Adobe coders/managers who think they obviously know better than their customers ever could.

Doug A Roberts

Community Expert

jackt65511718 wrote
That being the case I'm thinking what I'll do is copy all Myriad font files from my c: drive to a backup; note what folder they are in and then delete them. Make copies of the font I want as default, rename them as Myiad, and put them in the folders as replacements.

that sounds crazy.

you don't need to change the default font every time you start a new file. just change it for the document profiles you commonly use.

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

Jack,

You should be able to make a fundamental change of default font, if you find the right way of naming it, see this old (a bit unupdated) Working with the AIPrefs/Adobe Illustrator Prefs file (follow the link with that name).

Preference file location:

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/preference-file-location-illustrator.html

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

That is probably not going to work Jacob.

According to your own document, changing the startup file (new document profile) is the way to go:

"Among the countless preference settings are the default font (only up to Version 10; from Version CS on, the default font is specified in the startup files, Adobe Illustrator Startup_CMYK and Adobe Illustrator Startup_RGB, and the change must be done in Window>Type>Character Styles)"

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

Ton,

Actually, the quote is an(other unupdated) error on my part: I believe the right way to put it would be: only up to Version 10; from Version CS on, the default font is>can also be specified in the startup files ...

I will amend it; there are also a few other outstanding things/updates on that page. Edit: amended.

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

I think it will be very difficult to remove Myriad Pro, it is more or less "baked in" the Illustrator application.

But you can create a new document profile with another font as the default Character style.

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