From the course: InDesign: Typography Part 1
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Contextual alternates - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign: Typography Part 1
Contextual alternates
- [Voiceover] If you have the opportunity to use them, then contextual alternates can really give you a lot of options for customizing your type. I'm gonna start out with the example of swash characters. I'll zoom in on this portion of the page. Command, space bar, click and drag. Certain typefaces, Minion Pro italic being one of them, may have swash characters designed to be used only for the initial letter of the word. And I can apply swash characters by coming to my open type options and choosing swash. And if you come to this option and you see that its surrounded by square brackets, that means there aren't any swash characters for the type face that you're using. Zooming back out now, command, option or control alt zero. And now talking about contextual alternates, which are somewhat different from swash characters, but very much related to them. In this open-type pro font, Bickham Script, many of the characters have alternate forms. I can turn them on in several different ways…
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