From the course: Type Tips
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Using the Chartwell font
- This week's type tip is, in general, about the amazing potential of OpenType, and specifically, its about a font called Chartwell, by Travis Cotcher, and this font is designed to create infographics. The Chartwell family comprises seven different types of font, gives you the opportunity to have seven different types of chart, pies, bars, vertical bars, rose charts, line charts, ring charts and radar charts, and they all work by harnessing the power of discretionary ligatures. This means that we can create simple infographics, and also, quite complex infographics, directly within InDesign, and the data remains editable, because it is just a string of text. I'm gonna select that pie chart and press cmd or ctrl-Y to go to the story editor, and we see that it's nothing more than a string of numbers, a string of numbers connected by a plus symbol, and, in this case, in the case of the pie chart, followed, although sometimes, the letter, for certain styles, will precede the numbers, and…
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