Reply To: Hidden Typeface — Cannot Remove or Convert to Outlines

If you have a text frame anywhere in the document, you’ll have a font listed, even if it’s not used. It’s one of the attributes of a text frame that can’t be removed.

You can test this by creating a new document, entering some sample text in a text frame, selecting it all and converting it to outlines, which makes it an anchored object inside the frame. Look at Find Font and you’ll see a typeface listed.

Then select the outlined text with the Selection tool and choose Object > Anchored Object Options > Release, and then delete the text frame, leaving the outlined text. Look in Find Font and you’ll see no fonts are listed.

So unless you can construct a template with no text frames, (it’s possible! Just use guides to indicate where text frames should go) then you’ll always have a font listed.

AM