How to fill in a hollow font without adding a stroke. Jealous Punk Dot

[Mystical_Rhapsody98A6]

I purchased the font Jealous Punk Dot, thinking I could quickly fill the interior dots with a contrasting color to the primary letter of the font. For example, a pic online shows the font in white, with the dots inside being blue. I assumed I'd only need to click the stroke button, and the inside dots would fill. However, when I hit the stroke button, it adds a stroke around the entire font and inside the dots- as it should. I don't have to convert the font to outlines and fill in each dot, right? What would be the point of that? I'm stumped. It's like the font has two main colors. Help! 

 

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

Edges of the "dots" inside are the same as edges "outside" - so you can't fill them with color - they are cutouts in the glyphs.

It's rather someone created misleading preview.

If you need to work with live text - it will be quite "complicated" to achieve what you are looking for.

But if you can outline your text - then you could use Pathfinder:

to remove them quickly from the copy, then place this copy underneath the original and then fill it with color.

[Mystical_Rhapsody98A6]

I think the preview is also misleading. Every image of that font is shown without the stroke, which is why I liked it! Ugh! I appreciate the help. I've been thinking I'm missing an obvious step. 

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

It's splitting hairs, but the example — CARS — seems to have a light blue stroke, and then the dots are filled in by underlying color or by converting to outlines. But I'll say I've never seen a font that had such elements that could be filled without one workaround or the other; font glyphs are self-contained, closed paths, not "art images" — unless you convert them to such.

[Dirk Becker]

If you have the entire family, duplicate your text.

Once with Regular, then with "Dots 2" on top of that - using the different color.

At least from the preview at the web site they appear to have matching metrics.