Fonts incorrectly display with outline

[CRJC]

I'm working on a simple logo design in Illustrator 25.0, and when I set my text fill color to a light grey and my text path color to no color, my fonts display with an outline. This is obviously incorrect, but when I exported the document to PNG, the outline is there. As you can see in the screenshot, the path is set to no color. This appears to be a showstopper bug in the application. I've been using Illustrator for nearly 30 years, and have never seen anything like this. The font is Adobe Myriad, activated via Creative Cloud.

[Ton Frederiks]

Maybe there are 2 fills, one for the characters and one for the type object.

Highlight the characters with the type tool and set the fill to none.

Select the type with the Selection tool and set your fill or add a fill in the appearance panel.

[CRJC]

There is only one place to set the stroke and fill color for a text object.

[Monika Gause]

Please show the screenshot with the result. The white outline must display.

[CRJC]

There is no white outline, so I don't know what you are asking for. As you can see in the screenshot I've already provided, the stroke is set to "no color", yet the characters are showing up with a stroke.

[Larry G. Schneider]

Sorry but without the text being selected there's no way to confirm what you are saying.