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

Question

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 · Answer

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.

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