![]() ![]() ![]() 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. 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. If you want to learn more about Photoshop in little bite-sized chunks, visit our Photoshop Quick Tips home page.**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. ![]() Unleash Hidden Gems in OpenType fonts - Adobe Blog Unified Text Engine in Photoshop for international languages, scripts, and type OpenType icons are also in the Type Options section of the Type Layer Properties panel.Ĭheck out this quick video to see a demo:Īrabic and Hebrew type, ligatures, glyphs, and alternatesĪctivate, match, replace, preview, and search for fonts OpenType Icons are in the Character panel and in the flyout menu. You will not be able to click on OpenType and choose options if you are using a font that is not OpenType. You can also find the list of OpenType options by clicking on the 4 lines in the top right of the Character panel and selecting OpenType from the flyout menu. These icons are also visible on the Type Layer Properties panel. To configure and use the options choose an OpenType font, create and select some text, and then click on the desired OpenType icon in the Characters panel. If you have a type tool selected, you can click the Panel button in the options bar above the canvas. You can access the Characters panel from the main toolbar Window > Character, or click on the Character panel tab if the panel is visible but not currently active. You can also enable Discretionary ligatures if your chosen font offers them, which provides additional ornate options. Ligatures are typographic replacement characters for certain groups of letters. With some OpenType fonts, you can choose to apply ligatures to character pairs automatically. For more information, visit Glyphs and Special Characters and also check out the related links at the bottom of this post. ![]()
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