Change the Default font for new documents to any font you want. Open the startup profile (found inside <Username/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Illustrator CS4/New Document Profiles>) open the Character Styles Panel and set your preferred font in the [Normal Character Style] and then save the file. The font you set will now be default for all new documents created with that startup profile.

written by David Macy
“These tips originally appeared in the March/April 2009 issue of Layers: The How-To Magazine for Everything Adobe.”