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The Glyphs panel

The Glyphs panel

- [Instructor] Welcome to Type Tips. I'm Nigel Ffrench. This episode is about the Glyphs panel cropped, abstracted type. and predominantly, the Glyphs panel in InDesign Let's take a look at some examples. but we'll also look at the Glyphs panel Now the issue that we're going to run into in Photoshop and in Illustrator. when we do this in InDesign is that when we make our type really big As you're probably aware, the Glyphs panel is the place you go to to find all of those characters So we need to use Auto-Size Frames. that are not easily accessible on your keyboard And we also want to give ourselves options for changing our minds, and if you have a text insertion point, so we're going to use Paragraph Styles and we're going to use Object Styles. you just double-click on the glyph that you want And in addition, I'm going to show you a trick and that will enter it into your text frame. for how we can have one frame crop another, so we'll be using Paste Into. The problem is, especially…

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