Anything I type comes out as glyphs

[Shelle Witom]

A lot of the designs I make include text, and I have an abundance of fonts I have purchased that contain glyphs on certain characters for swirls and flourishes. At some point in the past month, photoshop will no longer let me use the regular characters in those fonts, anything I type comes out as a glyph. I can use fonts that don't contain glyphs and everything comes out normal, but as soon as I change the font the characters change. Even if I open the glyph panel and click on a regular character, it changes it to a glyph. I have updated, uninstalled and reinstalled, changed the type setting to turn glyphs off entirely...nothing is working, and it has made photoshop completely useless to me. Has anyone else experienced this, any suggestions?

[Jeff Arola]

Have you reset the photoshop preferences by going to Edit>Preferences>General, clicking on Reset Preferences On Ouit, then restsrting photoshop?

[jane-e · Accepted solution]

Hi @Shelle Witom 

With your text selected, go to Type menu > OpenType and uncheck anything that doesn't belong. Keep Standard Ligatures. Show a screen shot if you are not sure. (Use the Insert image button: mountain and sun.)

~ Jane

[Jovial_Enigma9378]

Did you find any solution to this? I'm having this same issue in 2024 & getting very frustrated.

[defaultpf7zd25i19g2]

Same here!

[davescm]

Have you followed the advice given by Jane above? If that did not resolve it, then the preference reset advised by Jeff?

Dave

[defaultpf7zd25i19g2]

Yes I just got it to work thank you!

[trevor0825]

Do you have any advise on how to fix this if both of those solutions did not fix the issue? This is very frustrating. 😔 For example I can not use this specific font at all because no matter what I do the glyphs wont go away and I can't change the glyph alternatives to the "standard" font. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[c.pfaffenbichler]

If it is an Adobe font could you please provide the file? 

Could you please post screenshots taken at View > 100% with the pertinent Panels (Toolbar, Layers, Character, Options Bar, …) visible? 

https://www.take-a-screenshot.org/

[jane-e]

@trevor0825 

In addition to the panels C.P. asked for, we need a screenshot for Type menu > OpenType, as shown in the answer marked "correct". Be sure to click an insertion point in the text first. We also need the name of the typeface and where you got it.

Jane

[Jeff Arola]

trevor0825,

Which version of Photoshop and operating system are you using?

What font is that?