Alt characters not showing up as alts for designated letters

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Once the font has been instaled in illustrator/photoshops glyphs panel I can see all my fonts characters, however, If I highlight the “a” and click the “alternate for selection” my alternate a’s do not appear. this is the case for “a-z”

I have names my alternates in different ways such as (.001, .ss01, .cv01)

The font is a hand-lettered font so I do have some code in CALT to cycle through two different classes variants of the font.

any insight would be greatly appreciated :slight_smile:

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Click on File > Font Info > Features > Update. The font needs to have up-to-date aalt and stylistic set features.

Are you using the Adobe Fonts folder?

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The popup in adobe apps need the aalt feature. Normally that is done by referencing all other features. But you can write that yourself. Something like

sub a from [a.001 a.ss01 a.something];

Do that for each base glyph.