Character Styles should only contain deviations from paragraph styles (like in InDesign)
In InDesign, I can simply design a paragraph using a paragraph style and then apply deviations (such as bolding) via a character style, because I can create a paragraph style that contains the sole information "style: bold". So that when I change the font in the paragraph style, the character style will simply apply the bolding to the new font.
In Illustrator, however, I need to select a font for the character style before I can select the style. This means that if I change the font in the paragraph style, I would also have to update it in the character style. Which makes the character style somewhat useless.
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Carol F Metzger
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This is one of the reasons I always go back to ID for my work.l I tried using Illustrator but it is just too frustrating!
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Javier
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Absolutely agree. The current paragraph and character styles are not a very useful feature because of this. Any Web browser can understand a CSS style that simply applies a font color using a <span> tag, but Illustrator character styles add a lot of basic stuff that make the feature behave as a bug.