not all icomoon font glyphs displaying in Illustrator (mac)

[jill.ju...@gmail.com]

Hello Icomoon,

I created four lovely custom icons in Icomoon and downloaded them with the default private use area unicode encodings (e600, e601,e602,e603). When I load the .ttf fonts into FontBook (and thus into my fonts folder on the mac), I can see all four glyphs. When I open the font in the Glyphs palette in Illustrator, I am missing the last glyph in the list. I am teaching this process to my university students (60 more Icomoon users, yay!), and they occasionally are missing glyphs when opening in Illustrator as well. I didn't think to check for a pattern, for example, was it always the last glyph.

Does anyone know why this is happening?

Thanks,

Jill

[Keyamoon]

Hi,

I suspect this might be an Illustrator bug. Especially because if you type the character using the type tool, you will see that the associated glyph will appear.

[jill.ju...@gmail.com]

I gather that it is a bug as well.

I'm still trying to find the shortcut to type unicode into Illustrator. Does anyone know it?

Thanks Keyamoon!

[Keyamoon]

An easy way to type the character would be using the demo.html file that IcoMoon generates. It lists all code points along with the character itself. You can find it at the bottom right corner of the icon.

You could also copy the character from the font tab of the app. See the image here: https://icomoon.io/#docs/make-font

With all that said, my own favorite way of typing characters into Illustrator is using ligatures. If you set ligatures for your icons, you can type a word ("home", for example) to make the icon appear. See this demo video: http://youtu.be/OM60ogIalLk

To set ligatures, in the font tab of the IcoMoon app, press the "fi" button. You can find this button in the toolbar on top.

[jill.ju...@gmail.com]

Oh, cool. Thanks. I was wondering how to use ligatures.