Wednesday, March 30

Type Glyphs for Consistent Decorative Motifs

Check Out Illustrator's Glyph Panel:

The Glyphs panel, found in Illustrator and InDesign allows you to access a font’s full character set. You can find the Glyphs panel by going to Window > Type > Glyphs. Once open, create a text field and then double click on the glyph you wish to use. Another tip here is to explore the full family of a particular font as you will find that some glyphs only appear in Italics. Three families with beautiful glyphs include Minion Pro, Burgues Script and Bickham Script Pro.

You may also be interested in a tutorial at Layers Magazine: How to use the glyphs panel in Illustrator to create a font monster.

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Posted by Kaitlin Hanger at 10:24 AM

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