![]() Notice the change in the letter “p.” It got a bit too cluttered with the standard letters. I fixed the word “stopping” above to not contain too many swirls. 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. 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. 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. The panel shows all of the characters (glyphs) available. To ensure they work, you will need to have contextual alternates turned on in your Open Type Panel. In Illustrator, the Glyphs panel is used to insert type characters, like trademark symbols (TM). ![]() 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. Here are some tips I wish I had known when starting out, as well as some answers to questions that others often ask me. Yet I remember how counter-intuitive some things were when I was learning it for the first time. This is an interesting bit about typography that many folks do not take advantage of. For multi-page documents, it’s the most flexible and complete application out there. This allows you to have more language (and platform) variants.**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. Here is one for the geeks among you: If you know what you are doing, you can also add the full featureNames code instead of the Name: line. All you need to do is open your Font Info (Cmd-I), go to the Features tab and click on the circled arrow button in the bottom left corner: If you stick to this naming convention, Glyphs can build the feature code for you. Since the maximum number of sets is twenty, your suffixes can go all the way up to. ss02 corresponds to the second stylistic set. If you want more stylistic sets, all you need to do is add the appropriate suffix to the glyph name. ss01 suffix simply means it’s the a of the first stylistic set. The alternate variation should be named a.ss01. The key to the stylistic variation is the glyph name. Whatever suits your design best.īack to our a variations. One stylistic set, for instance, could consist of letters with alternative descenders, another set of alternative shapes (like the a in our exampe), a third one of alternative diagonal legs for R and K. Stylistic sets do not necessarily exclude each other: more than one set can be activated at the same time. You can define up to twenty variations of your alphabet and put them into your font. For cases like this, OpenType offers so-called stylistic sets.
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