Hello, this is my first time using Fontself and I am attempting to make a textured font using a pattern swatch I made in Illustrator. I have read how to make color fonts but I do not know if I missing something or if it is something different I need to do. When I pull my letters into Fontself they appear but are just a regular shape, my texture swatch is not being applied and I do not know how to get it to do so! Any help here would be extremely helpful.
Font using a pattern swatch-help!
Textures are not supported in Fontself for Illustrator. If your pattern is vector-based you could outline it to make a vector-only color font, but it requires richer textures like noise, you will need to look at turning them into bitmap images and import them in Fontself for Photoshop.
Learn about the difference here: https://help.fontself.com/en/articles/1241232-color-fonts-101
What Franz says is completely true…these dudes are the gods of FontSelf 
There might however, still be a way to still do it in Illustrator, but that depends on how complex your pattern/texture is? Would you be able to post a screen grab of one of the letters or glyphs?