Using glyphs

With almost every font there are these hidden characters that you don't learn …about unless you try something like this. Maybe take your type tool and draw an …area and you just start banging on all your keys. …And then you hold your Alt key down and start banging on all your keys. …And eventually as you're doing this, and then Alt Shift, eventually you may find …that one upside down question mark or that cross that you're looking for. …If you've ever done that, you can stop it, because now, in Illustrator, as well …as inDesign, under type, we have the glyphs panel.…

The glyphs panel allows us to see every single character available in any given …font that we have selected. In this case I have Ariel black selected …and I'm seeing every single character in this version of Ariel black. …So it's possible that you have Garamond and Garamond Pro and both of them have …totally different sets of characters. So just be aware that hidden within these …fonts are some great little nuggets that we might be able to use. …