Hi, this is Anne with Graphic Design How To, and today I'm going to show you how to change your
default font in Adobe Illustrator. Alright, let's get started. Alright, first I'm going to open a
new document. So I'll come over here to Create New. And now I'm going to choose one of these up
here. And these are what decide what font is being used. So if you want the web one to always use a
certain font, you can change only the web one. So I'm going to show you how to do that with web.
But first, I'm going to show you exactly what I mean. So I'll choose Web, I'll choose Common here,
which is the first one, and then I'll Create. And now I'll hit T on my keyboard and just draw a box.
And this is the text I'm talking about. So this is Myriad, I believe. We've got Myriad Pro
at 12 points, it's black. So if we want to change this to something else, we'll have to change the
document profile. On a Mac, we'll come out here to the Finder. And then I'm going to hit SHIFT CMD 8,
that'll take me to Home. And you'll see Library here. But if you don't see it,
just right click and choose Show View Options, then make sure this is checked here. Okay,
so go to Library > Application Support > Adobe, and find the version of Illustrator you're using.
For me, that's 25...I probably should get rid of all those others. And then go here to EN US.
And then go to New Document Profiles. And we'll open the web one.
Now on a PC, it is Users > User Profile > App data roaming > Adobe > Adobe Illustrator 25 settings,
EN US x 64. And New Document Profiles. And I'll add this in the description below too. We've got
the web document profile open. Now we can just go to Window > Type and Character styles. And
that'll pull up this little window. You might have already had it open. Then we'll click this flyout,
choose Character Style Options, and then click on Basic Character Formats. And this will give us the
option of changing our font family. I'm going to go ahead and change this to Arial. And I'm
going to make it a little bit bigger, maybe 20 points. You can see the other options you have,
you can kern it in a little bit, you can change the leading and the tracking, we can also do
horizontal and vertical scale. And we can change the color here. So you can really get exactly how
you want it. Once you're done, just say OK, and then go ahead and make a text box here.
And you should be able to see your new character style in your document profile. Just delete that
and then save this, you might get this dialog box that says you can't save the illustration.
I'm on a Mac, and it's telling me the file is locked or in use. So I'm going to just say OK.
Then I'm going to Save as and I'm going to get on my desktop and just save it out there as web.ai.
We'll save it and say OK, and then I'll open up my finder, and go to my desktop. And here it is. And
now I'll just drag it into that document profiles location that I showed you before. And it'll ask
me if I want to overwrite and then we'll replace. Let's go ahead and close all the documents.
And start by Creating New, we'll go to Web, I'll just choose Common like before and Create. And now
if I hit T on my keyboard, and draw a big box... I'll highlight some and check my characters. And
this is Arial, regular 20, just like I set it up. Now you should be able to completely close down
the program and restart and they'll still be saved in the Web document profile. So let's go ahead and
check it. We'll Create New, we'll choose Web, I'll do common, and I can really choose any of these,
as long as they're underneath the web option. We'll say Create. And now if I hit T and make
a box, yes - we've still got Arial, regular and 20 points. Now a couple of things to think about.
Anytime you open old documents that you used with the web profile, those will update to the new
font. So you need to be mindful of that. If you used that as actual text on something you created,
it is going to change it. Also if you want to update all of your document profiles,
you'll need to go out to your Finder and open up all of these different ones and do that same
character style replacement on all of them. But you only have to do it once and they'll always
be saved for you. Alright, if you liked this video and you want to see more videos like this,
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