Working with Glyphs. Glyphs are hieroglyphic characters or symbols, such as the @ sign. To work with glyphs in Illustrator, go to Window>Type>Glyphs. You can then see the Glyphs that you can use. Scroll down within the panel to look at all of them.
Enter glyphsby way of the Glyphs panel. The panel initially shows glyphs inthe font where the cursor is located, but you can view a differentfont, view a type style in the font (for example, Light, Regular,or Bold), and make the panel display a subset of glyphs in the font(for example, math symbols, numbers, or punctuation symbols).
A. Show subset of glyphs B. Search box C. Tool tip displaying glyph ID, Unicode, and Name D. Font list E. Font style
By moving the pointer over a glyph, you can read its CID/GIDvalue, Unicode value, and name in a tool tip.
- Choose Type > Glyphs orWindow > Type & Tables > Glyphs.
- Click the cycle widget (it’slocated to the left of the word “Glyphs” on the Glyphs panel) tochange views of the panel. Clicking the widget presents these viewsin succession: the collapsed panel, the entire panel, and the panel withoutrecently used glyphs.
- Click the Zoom In or ZoomOut buttons in the lower-right corner of the Glyphs panel.
- Resize the Glyphs panel by dragging the lower-right corner.
- Do one of the following on the Showlist to determine which glyphs appear on the Glyphs panel:
- Choose Entire Font to display all glyphsavailable in the font.
- Choose an option below Entire Font to narrow thelist to a subset of glyphs. For example, Punctuation displays onlypunctuation glyphs; Math Symbols narrows the choices to mathematicalsymbols.
- Choose By CID / GID or By Unicode todetermine how glyphs are sorted in the Glyphs panel.
- In the Glyph panel, click inside the Search box and enter the search query.By default, InDesign uses a generic search to search based on the glyph name, Unicode, or glyph ID.
- You can however, specify the search parameter to further filter the search results.To do this, click the drop-down arrow on the left of the Search box and choose the required search parameter.
A glyph isa specific form of a character. For example, in certain fonts, thecapital letter A is available in several forms, such as swash andsmall cap. You can use the Glyphs panel to locate any glyph in afont.
OpenType fonts such as Adobe Caslon™ Proprovide multiple glyphs for many standard characters. Use the Glyphspanel when you want to insert these alternate glyphs in your document.You can also use the Glyphs panel to view and insert OpenType attributessuch as ornaments, swashes, fractions, and ligatures.
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Access special font properties of OpenType fonts for greater typographic control! Here's a quick tutorial: Work with glyphs more easily.
Youcan insert common characters such as em dashes and en dashes, registered trademarksymbols, and ellipses.
- Using the Type tool, position the insertion pointwhere you want to insert a character.
- Choose Type > Insert Special Character, andthen select an option from any of the categories in the menu.
If special characters that you use repeatedly do notappear on the list of special characters, add them to a glyph setthat you create.
- Using the Type tool, click to placethe insertion point where you want to enter a character.
- To display a different set of characters in the Glyphspanel, do any of the following:
- Select a different font and type style,if available. From the Show menu, choose Entire Font. Or, if youselected an OpenType font, choose from a number of OpenType categories.
- Choose a custom glyph set from the Show menu. (See Createand edit custom glyph sets.)
- Scroll through the display of characters until you seethe glyph you want to insert. If you selected an OpenType font,you can display a pop‑up menu of alternate glyphs by clicking andholding the glyph box.
- Double-click the character you want to insert. The characterappears at the text insertion point.
InDesign tracksthe previous 35 distinct glyphs you inserted and makes them availableunder Recently Used in the first row of the Glyphs panel (you have toexpand the panel to see all 35 glyphs on the first row).
- Double-click a glyph under Recently Used.
- Choose Recent Glyphs on the Show list to displayall recently used glyphs in the main body of the Glyphs panel, andthen double-click a glyph.
- To clear a selected glyphfrom the Recently Used section, right-click (Windows®)or Control-click (Mac OS) a glyph in the Recently Usedsection, and then choose Delete Glyph From Recently Used.
- To clear all recently used glyphs, choose ClearAll Recently Used.
If you select a character in an InDesign document and the character has at least one alternate glyph, InDesign displays an on-context menu containing the available alternates.
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If you select a word, a blue underline appears under the character. If you hover the mouse over the blue underline, then the on-context menu is displayed.
- To replace the selected character in the document, click the glyph in the on-context menu.InDesign displays up to a maximum of 5 alternate glyphs for a selected character.If the selected character has more than 5 alternates, a forward arrow is displayed on the right end of the on-context menu.
- If the glyph you require is not in the on-context menu, click the right arrow.The Glyph panel is displayed containing all the alternate glyphs.
- Do one of the following to replace the selected characterin the document:
- Double-click a glyph in the Glyphs panel.
- Select a glyph on the menu.
Display OpenType glyph attributesin the Glyphs panel
For easyselection, the Glyphs panel allows you to display characters foronly the selected OpenType attributes. You can select various optionsfrom the Show menu in the Glyphs panel.
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Do notconfuse these options with those that appear on the Glyphs panelmenu, which let you apply forms to selected text. (See ApplyOpenType font attributes.)
- In the Glyphs panel, choose an OpenType font fromthe font list.
The options displayed vary depending on which font isselected. For information on applying OpenType font attributes,see ApplyOpenType font attributes. For more information on OpenTypefonts, see www.adobe.com/go/opentype.
- Choose Edit > Preferences >Composition (Windows) or InDesign > Preferences >Composition (Mac OS).
- Select Substituted Glyphs, and then click OK.Substituted glyphs in the text are highlighted in nonprinting yellow.
A glyphset is a named collection of glyphs from one or more fonts.Saving commonly used glyphs in a glyph set prevents you from havingto look for them each time you need to use them. Glyph sets arenot attached to any particular document; they are stored with otherInDesign preferences in a separate file that can be shared.
Youcan determine whether the font is remembered with the added glyph. Rememberingfonts is useful, for example, when you are working with dingbat charactersthat may not appear in other fonts. If a glyph’s font is remembered,but the font is missing, the font’s square appears in pink in theGlyphs panel and the Edit Glyph Set dialog box. If a font is notremembered with an added glyph, a “u” appears next to the glyph,indicating that the font’s unicode value determines the appearanceof the glyph.
- From the Glyphs panel menu, choose NewGlyph Set.
- Open the context menu on the Glyphs panel and chooseNew Glyph Set.
- Choose the insert order in which glyphs will be addedto the glyph set, and click OK:Each new glyph is listed first in the set.Each new glyph is listed last in the set.All glyphs are listed by the order of their unicode values.
- To add glyphs to the custom set, select the font containingthe glyph at the bottom of the Glyphs panel, click the glyph toselect it, and then choose the name of the custom glyph set fromthe Add To Glyph Set menu on the Glyphs panel menu.
- Choose the glyph set on the Show list.
- On the Glyphs panel menu, choose View Glyph Set,and then the name of the glyph set.
- Choose Edit Glyph Set from the Glyphpanel menu, and then choose the custom glyph set.
- Select the glyph you want to edit, do any of the following,and then click OK:
- To bind the glyph to its font, select RememberFont With Glyph. A glyph that remembers its font ignores the fontapplied to the selected text in the document when the glyph is insertedinto that text. It also ignores the font specified in the Glyphpanel itself. If you deselect this option, the Unicode value ofthe current font is used.
- To view additional glyphs, choose a different fontor style. If the glyph is not defined with a font, you cannot selecta different font.
- To remove a glyph from the custom glyph set, chooseDelete From Set.
- To change the order in which glyphs are added tothe set, choose an Insert Order option. Unicode Order is not availableif Insert At Front or Append At End was selected when the glyphset was created.
- In the Glyphs panel, choose the CustomGlyph Set from the Show menu.
- Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS)a glyph, and then choose Delete Glyph From Set.
- From the Glyphs panel menu, choose DeleteGlyph Set.
- From the context menu, choose Delete Glyph Set.
Custom glyph sets are stored in files keptin the Glyph Sets folder, a subfolder of the Presets folder. Youcan copy glyph set files to other computers and in so doing makecustom glyph sets available to others. Copy glyph set files to andfrom these folders to share them with others:
Users[username]LibraryPreferencesAdobe InDesign[Version][Language]GlyphSets
Documents and Settings[username]Application DataAdobeInDesign[Version][Language]GlyphSets
Users[username]AppDataRoamingAdobeInDesign[Version][Language]GlyphSets
Youcan specify different quotation marks for different languages. These quotationmark characters appear automatically during typing if the Use Typographer’sQuotes option is selected in the Type section of the Preferencesdialog box.
- Choose Edit > Preferences >Dictionary (Windows) or InDesign > Preferences >Dictionary (Mac OS).
- For Double Quotes, select a pair of quotationmarks, or type the pair of characters you want to use.
- For Single Quotes, select a pair of quotation marks,or type the pair of characters you want to use.
- Choose Type > Insert SpecialCharacter > Quotation Marks > Straight Double QuotationMarks or Straight Single Quotation Mark (Apostrophe).
- Deselect the Use Typographer’s Quotes option inthe Type section of the Preferences dialog box, and then type thequotation mark or apostrophe.
- PressShift+Ctrl+Alt+' (Windows) or Shift+Command+Option+' (Mac OS)to switch between turning on and off the Use Typographer’s Quotespreferences option.
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The character frequently used to indicatefeet, arcminutes, or minutes of time is the prime mark.It looks like a slanted apostrophe. The character frequently usedto indicate inches, arcseconds, or seconds of time is the doubleprime mark. These symbols are different from apostrophesand double quotation marks. Some fonts include the prime and doubleprime marks. Use the Glyphs panel to insert these marks. If thefont doesn’t have a prime or double prime mark, insert the straight quotationmark, and italicize it.
A whitespace character is a blank space that appears between characters.You can use white-space characters for many different purposes,such as preventing two words from being broken at the end of a line.
- Using the Type tool, position the insertion point whereyou want to insert a certain amount of white space.
- Choose Type > Insert White Space, and thenselect one of the spacing options (such as Em Space) in the contextmenu.
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Representative symbols of the white-spacecharacters appear when you choose Type > Show HiddenCharacters.
The following options appear on the Type >Insert White Space menu:
This is a space that is based on a full-width character in Asianlanguages. It wraps to the next line as with other full-width characters.
Equal in width to the size of the type. In 12‑point type,an em space is 12 points wide.
One‑half the width of an em space.
The same flexible width as pressing the spacebar, but it preventsthe line from being broken at the space character.
A fixed width space prevents the line from being broken atthe space character, but does not expand or compress in justifiedtext. The fixed width space is identical to the Nonbreaking Space characterinserted in InDesign CS2.
One‑third the width of an em space.
One‑fourth the width of an em space.
One‑sixth the width of an em space.
Adds a variable amount of space to the last line of a fully justifiedparagraph, useful for justifying text in the last line. (See ChangeJustification settings.)
One‑twenty‑fourth the width of an em space.
One‑eighth the width of an em space. You may want to usea thin space on either side of an em dash or en dash.
Same width as a number in the typeface. Use a figure spaceto help align numbers in financial tables.
Same width as an exclamation point, period, or colon in thetypeface.
The Adobe SING Glyphlet Manager is a utility for installing and searching for glyphlets. It is not included in Adobe Creative Suite 5 and later versions.
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If you like to try out different typefaces, chances are you'll find that your Windows 10 font control panel fills up fast. To make it easier to find the fonts you really want, you may want to delete some fonts. Windows uses three kinds of fonts: TrueType, OpenType and PostScript. Deleting TrueType and OpenType fonts is a simple process. It hasn't changed much from previous versions of Windows.
How to Delete TrueType and OpenType Fonts
- Click on the new Search field. You'll find it on the right side of the Start button.
- Type 'fonts' in the search field.
- Click the search result that reads Fonts - Control panel to open a control panel filled with font names or icons.
- Click the icon or name for the font you want to delete to select it. If the font is part of a font family and you don't want to delete the other members of the family, you may have to open the family before you can select the font you want to delete. If your view shows icons rather than names, the icons with multiple stacked icons represent font families.
- Clickthe Delete button to delete the font.
- Confirm the deletion when prompted to do so.
Deleting a shortcut versus an actual font. If you checked the 'Install as shortcut' box when you installed the font, you are only removing the shortcut. The actual font file remains in the directory where you stored it.
Keep the font. If you only want to uninstall the font but keep it for future use, copy it to another disk or directory before deleting it.
Be careful what you delete. Certain fonts should not be deleted. Don't delete any system fonts such as Calibre, Microsoft Sans Serif or Tahoma.