Still no way to change Myriad Pro from being the default font?

[sandrao65191642]

Please!!

Does anybody find a way?

Abobe?

Thanks!

[Monika Gause]

Edit the Default Character style and save that as a new document profile.

[sandrao65191642]

Hi Monika! Thanks for your answer.

Would you mind telling me how / where to do that, step by step, because I don't seem to get it done right.

I'm looking to change the default font for good, all documents, all the time. Never have to open a document and getting text in Myriad Pro again.

Thanks!

[Monika Gause]

Document profiles are files that live in your user folder in the application folder. You will have to set that up after installing a new version. And you might need to set that up when Illustrator hangs up itself.

They are basically AI files. Then when creating a new document, you use the profile you have created. You can also change the existing ones. Which might be more along your alley.

The folder is in the location listed here: https://www.vektorgarten.de/illustrator-settings.html

[sandrao65191642]

Oh, okay, the hacker's way.

Thanks for your time!

All IA and so and still can't change the default font. I wish Adobe would understand that a default font is a basic and important setting that should be accesible within the application.

Don't know how to get to them.

Thanks again!!!!

[Monika Gause]

Editing the New document profiles is not hacking.

You want to make a feature request: https://illustrator.uservoice.com

Having document based defaults is a practical thing though.

[Ton Frederiks]

I had this description saved, maybe this helps:

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.

[Salesforce Zo�]

Hi – thanks for this. I saved the file to my desktop and then copied it into the New Document Profiles (after changing the Normal Character Style). Still didn't work. I quit/restarted AI, but no luck. When I double-click the Print.ai file itself, in that New Document Profiles folder, the default font IS my alternate font – but I can't get it to be the default when I just choose New (I chose samples from the Print and Art & Illustration options after choosing New – isn't that what we're hoping should happen?). Maybe I'm just creating a new doc the wrong way? Thanks for any additional feedback you might have. 

[Salesforce Zo�]

@Ton Frederiks 

[Ton Frederiks]

Did you use the Legacy  "File New"  interface? Check it in Preferences.

[Salesforce Zo�]

@Ton Frederiks I did set that up in my Preferences, and then choose New, and in that dialog box I chose Print in the Profile pop-up – and the resulting file still defaulted to Myriad.  😞

[Ton Frederiks]

Don't put the modified file in the Application folder > Support files, it will not overwrite the library one.

[Salesforce Zo�]

@Ton Frederiks  Sorry, I thought that's what your original instructions meant (save, and if you can't save, save to desktop and then replace). Can you tell me where I should put it? If you look at my original screenshot, the modification date has changed on the Print and Art & Illustration templates, so it seems like they did actually overwrite when I copied them over from my desktop?

[Ton Frederiks]

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

[Salesforce Zo�]

@Ton Frederiks Shoot – I did put in there now (see screenshot), and open up a new (legacy) file with Print chosen as the profile – and still Myriad! 

[Ton Frederiks]

Maybe the Print.ai should be inside the en_US folder.

This is how it looks in my Adobe Support folder:

[Salesforce Zo�]

Thanks again @Ton Frederiks – I tried putting them in the en_US folder, and no luck. At least I've got the option now of hitting the Templates button when using the Legacy way of going New... so I saved a template that's using my font, and can easily open it there. Absolutely crazy that AI won't let you set your default font. I feel like back in the day it did – but that was probably Freehand, which is what I used "back in the day." 🙂

[Monika Gause]

Does this help? https://youtu.be/5kcrHjSbN5k

[Bobby Henderson]

What's wrong with Myriad Pro? You should be glad the default isn't Arial!

Arial stinks! It's just ugly, IMHO. It's a Frankenstein's Monster of fonts. Start with Monotype Grotesk, stir in some Akzidenz Grotesk, throw in the metrics of 1957 Helvetica, maybe a few other cues and you'll have this crooked looking sans thing. I've never liked it. And I've grown to really despise it for Arial's rampant misuse on designs of outdoor signs as well as a lot of other cooked up amateur graphics. When I see type artificially distorted (squeezed or stretched) out of its normal, balanced proportions I'm usually seeing Arial used in those examples of "font murder."

Balanced against that, Myriad Pro looks pretty beautiful. The typeface might seem a bit like a Frutiger knock-off, but Myriad has its own identity. I think it's a little more friendly looking than Frutiger (or Frutiger Next). Unlike the crummy default Arial, the Myriad typeface has variable versions. One is bundled into Adobe Illustrator. Another is available to sync at Adobe Fonts.