P: Alternate Type Glyphs Not Working in 2023 (v24.x)

I managed to get Trattatello’s glyphs to work by going to InDesign preferences > advanced type and switching the Default Composer from Adobe World-Ready Paragraph Composer to Adobe Paragraph Composer.

Probably a Unicode-related issue.

I’m having the same problem with Trattatello on macOS. Many of the alternate glyphs, such as capital H’s don’t work in any Adobe apps. I’ve tried InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator.

Well, I'm glad that it's fixed for the font you were using, but it still doesn't work for all of them. The issue persists as of 26.3.0 for me with the Daveau font I gave an example of several posts up.

Issue still not fixed in 2025.

Shamefull.

I'm on Photoshop 25.7.0 and am having the same issue with Trattatello.... the glyphs were working perfectly last week but won't work at all now. I've checked all the settings like everyone else here and am at a loss as to how to fix the issue!! 

I am getting the same bug described in this thread -- apparently there are still issue while using PS 25.12. Almost every font works correctly but a few will not input their alternate characters either via the contextual alternates popup nor when manually selected from the glyphs panel. Attemping either causes the default character from the set to display. The Enable Type Layer Glyph Alternates option is checked in the type options of the preferences panel.

None of the selected contextual alternates change the displayed character:

This is what happens when I try to use the glyphs panel to insert alternate glyphs:

It's not merely a case of a broken font, either; the font (Daveau) works just fine in Illustrator, and the contextual alternates and glyphs panels both work just fine:

Is there a fix for this yet? For the moment I can create my type in Illustrator and import it to Photoshop, but that's terribly inconvenient, and means I can't update my text without switching programs, exporting, and importing.

@nicoles67567231 wrote They hung up on me.

Did you happen to get a case number at the very start of the call?

Jane

It's not fixed at all. Anything I type turns into glyphs after using one single glyph in any font. Maybe in 10 years the bug will be solved....until that, what should we do if we cannot type regular text inside photoshop?

Interesting customer service approach if that was on purpose. Let's hope it wasn't. Some of the fonts affected are from the Adobe repository so if it's the font author, Adobe should now be communicating the issue to the authors under contract. I'm working on a publication at this moment using Adobe's distributed Montserrat. In order to use the alt glyphs, I have created 2 character styles, "fancy" and "plain" (you can guess which is which). I highlight the letter I want to fancify and click the style name in the character style window (sometimes I have to click PLAIN then FANCY for it to work). Then I apply any other font characteristics like size, leading, weight. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.