Why are some fonts missing when filtered?

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
March 22, 2017
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I absolutely love, love, love the font "Organize and Filter" feature in Illustrator! I am wondering how this works or if it can be manually edited? I have thousands of fonts and many are free fonts I have collected over the years - however, they are not all showing when I select one of the filter options. For example, I have a bunch of script fonts and when I select "Script" as my filter option many do not show up. I am wondering if there is a way to fix this?

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Mike_Gondek10189183

Community Expert

What is the name a font that is not showing up?

Type script and set to all classes, and I believe this should find all fonts with word script in the name of font.

If you choose filter by script then the fonts must be tagged as a script font in the code of the font. Many of he free fonts do not properly code their fonts.

AllCoreAuthor

Participant

One font example is named: Bonfire which is an OTF version

Ahh, that is what I figured, it is probably not properly coded. I wish there was an easy way to manually edit the list in Illustrator or make custom font lists - oh the dream

Thanks for your help.

Mike_Gondek10189183

Community Expert

If this is the right font

The Metadata for Bonfire is coded as regular not script

You would need something like Universal Type Server/Client

Very few people/companies have the patience to organize and edit their library, if there is anyone else would love to meet them and exchange ideas and classification strategies.

Larry G. Schneider

Community Expert

What types are the ones which don't show up? Type 1 Postscript most likely. Most of the newer versions of the OSes have stopped supporting older Type 1 fonts. You might need to find an OTF version to continue.

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