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. This is my favorite spatula to use to help lift the sugar from the cutting mat because of the thin.
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Open Your Glyphs panel, type something with your font of choice, and play with alternate glyphs. How to Cut Sugar Sheets with your Silhouette Cameo. 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. 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. Click on Group By and choose Unicode Subrange. To make it easier to work with glyphs, we will group them first. The letters and glyphs will show in the blocked area below.
This is an interesting bit about typography that many folks do not take advantage of. With the Character Map open, click on the Font drop down menu and choose your font. **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.
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