Certain letter turns into a rectangle when typing

Question

When I select a certain font and type any word with 'art' in the 'r' turns into a rectangle/box. If I type 'a' and then 'r' that's fine it's only when I follow the 'r' with 't' that the 'r' turns into a box !?

This has never happened before, any ideas?

MW Design · Accepted Answer

Hi Bill, I download the font then drag the ttf directly into the Font Book on the Mac.

p.s. thank you for your help and advice on this

I downloaded the font from the link Barb has.

The font (at least the free font) has a contextual ligatures feature that purposefully switched the r character for the .notdef character (the upright rectangle you are seeing). That feature (clig) is turned on by default in ID. Turn it off in ID and you'll get the r back.

That clig feature (such as it is) only happens if the word art is typed. I would suspect the commercial version of the font doesn't do this.

Mike

Bill Silbert · Answer

This sounds like the font could be corrupt. Usually when a font shows a box like that it is because that font doesn't have that particular character. But that would usually be something like a footnote character or something else that is apart from the basic alphabet. Try loading another copy of the font (if one is available) and see if the problem persists.

Also, please post what the name of the font is and whether it is TrueType, Open Type or Postscript Type 1.

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