Edit one glyph, help me! :)

#1

Hi! :slight_smile:
I don’t know if this is the right place to ask for help, but I just made a new font. I have done everything I need to make it usable. But unfortunatly I now realized that I have one glyph I want to edit. I Redid the glyph in my ai file, deleted the old glyph in Fontself and imported the new glyph. I saved my font again but the new glyph will not change when I reinstall the font. Even when I tried changing the namn, it says there is an existing font with that name, I then proceeded to install it again anyway, but it won’t work. What am I doing wrong?

//Sanna

#2

Would be nice of you to share the OS you are using - is it MacOS or Windows? I’d assume you will need to go to your fonts folder and delete the old font file first.

#3

Just curious. Have you tried copying and pasting content from your original font file into a slightly different font file name (e.g. Acme.ttf to A-cme.ttf? If that results in the properly changed glyph, delete your original font and change your revised version back to its original name.

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#4

I use Windows. I’ve now deleted the files and changed the name in Font Infos under “My family name is” that’s the only way I manage to save the font under a completely new name. So I guess it works. But in illustator I now have a couple of fonts I don’t wanna keep. Is it possible to get rid of them? Even though the original otf file is deleted I can still use them.
Thank you for your help :slight_smile:

#5

Hello Sanna
In C:\Windows\Fonts you can see all fonts that are installed in windows.
If you drag file out of the folder than they are no available any more.

For Illustrator there is a second folder:
C:\Users\admin\AppData\ Roaming\Adobe\Fonts\Fontself
where fonts can be and from there they are only available in AI.

(For macOS go to
~/Library/Fonts/ or use the app Fontbook from Apple which is part of macOS.
and the AI folder is ~/Library/Application Support/ Adobe/Fonts/Fontself
The tilde ~ stands for you username)

I hope that will help you to solve your font problems.

– j.

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#6

It works now, thank you! :slight_smile: