# About(xxx) dies with missing face!()
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/about-xxx-dies-with-missing-face/136854
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [April 24, 2026, 8:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/about-xxx-dies-with-missing-face/136854 "2026-04-24T20:03:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@devel-chm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/devel-chm)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2026, 8:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/about-xxx-dies-with-missing-face/136854/1 "2026-04-24T20:03:36Z")
This is on julia 1.10.9 on windows 11:
```julia-auto
julia> about(a3)
Makie.Axis (mutable) (<: Makie.AbstractAxis <: Makie.Block <: Any), occupies 1.2kB directly (referencing 27MB in total)
parent::Union{Nothing, Figure, Scene} 8B Ptr? Scene(4 children, 0 plots)
ERROR: MethodError: no method matching face!(::String, ::Symbol)
Closest candidates are:
face!(::Union{StyledStrings.AnnotatedStrings.AnnotatedString, SubString{<:StyledStrings.AnnotatedStrings.AnnotatedString}}, ::Union{Symbol, StyledStrings.Face, Vector{<:Union{Symbol, StyledStrings.Face}}})
@ StyledStrings C:\Users\chris.h.marshall\AppData\Local\Julia\dot-julia\packages\StyledStrings\rd5VN\src\faces.jl:622
Stacktrace:
[1] memorylayout(io::Base.TTY, value::Makie.Axis)
@ About C:\Users\tmp\AppData\Local\Julia\dot-julia\packages\About\2xkKY\src\values.jl:115
[2] about(io::Base.TTY, value::Makie.Axis)
@ About C:\Users\tmp\AppData\Local\Julia\dot-julia\packages\About\2xkKY\src\values.jl:47
[3] about(x::Makie.Axis)
@ About C:\Users\tmpAppData\Local\Julia\dot-julia\packages\About\2xkKY\src\About.jl:207
[4] top-level scope
@ REPL[94]:1
```
These crashes make `About.jl` a lot less useful than it could be otherwise.
-chm
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### Author:  [@tecosaur](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tecosaur)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2026, 3:17am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/about-xxx-dies-with-missing-face/136854/2 "2026-04-25T03:17:54Z")
I see your issue slipped past me, for reference pinging/bumping is worthwhile, even if ideally it’s not needed.
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### Author:  [@devel-chm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/devel-chm)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2026, 6:41pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/about-xxx-dies-with-missing-face/136854/3 "2026-05-29T18:41:51Z")
@tecosaur This issue is also present on Ubuntu linux 18.04 with Julia 1.10.10 LTS and About 1.0.4.
The problem seems to be the faces support in LTS? (Didn’t the styled strings get a makeover
on a more recent version than the LTS 1.10.x?)
This is the only way I could think of to “ping/bump” you.
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### Author:  [@tecosaur](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tecosaur)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2026, 3:19am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/about-xxx-dies-with-missing-face/136854/4 "2026-05-30T03:19:08Z")
This or GitHub works. Thanks for the ping, I’ll try to squeeze this into my weekend.