Open Your Glyphs panel, type something with your font of choice, and play with alternate glyphs. This panel gives you access to glyphs you cannot access from your keyboard. This guide is a work in progress and will be extended over time.
The manual covers all the basics from installing, different formats, usage of fonts and of course how to access PUA encoded glyphs & characters. Notice the change in the letter “p.” It got a bit too cluttered with the standard letters. The glyphs panel in Illustrator is really where all of the magic of fonts happens. The Ultimate Font Guide is an easy to use guide that explains how to use downloaded fonts. I fixed the word “stopping” above to not contain too many swirls. The glyphs panel in Illustrator is really where all of the magic of fonts happens. You can also have a go at playing with the contextual alternates, ordinals (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc) and more from this panel. Finding Similar Fonts, Match Fonts, This video (New Typographic Features in Photoshop CC) demonstrates how to find Similar fonts (installed locally or available via the Adobe Type Library (formally Typekit) as well as demonstrates how to use the Font Match Feature in Photoshop to identify similar fonts from a photograph (bitmap image). Advisor, /t5/photoshop-for-mobile/how-to-access-glyphs-in-photoshop-for-ipad/m-p/11341627M1660 Aug 06, 2020. I chose fraction in this example to convert my text to a lovely fraction. Select Open Type and then see the options for ordinal numbers, fractions, and more, depending on what is built in to your font. With the text tool, and an open type font selected, go to the character panel drop down menu. To ensure they work, you will need to have contextual alternates turned on in your Open Type Panel. With the matchmaker font, there are swashes that work when you type = at the front of your lowercase letters and +++ at the end of them.
To access all of these lovely little swashes you would ideally want to use the glyphs panel in Illustrator (Read on below.) But, here is How to Work With Glyphs Panel In Photoshop to ensure your font looks lovely. In fact, I have many “Hidden” glyphs programmed into my very own Matchmaker font as well. These glyphs are not accessible via your keyboard keys.Īfter Playing a Bit With Glyphs in the Glyphs Panel
The glyphs panel in Illustrator is a dream and gives you access to the wonderful hidden swashes, swooshes, and connections for certain letters that create super elegant typography. Did you know about the “Glyphs” panel in Illustrator? The Open Type Panel in Photoshop? Wowsers! The Open Type Panel in Photoshop automatically takes advantage of the lovely features built into a font. It involves how to access all glyphs in a font. This is an interesting bit about typography that many folks do not take advantage of. Each letter has between 3 and 12 alternates, except for lowercase a, c, e, and r.**UPDATE 2/17/16** For those without access to Photoshop or Illustrator and a glyphs panel… there is another way! See this tutorial for more. Vondey is a display font with more than 220 alternates and a Bonus Ornament font with lots of swirls and decorations, perfect for the Holidays.