From the course: Photoshop for Designers: Type Essentials
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Color fonts - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop for Designers: Type Essentials
Color fonts
- [Instructor] Color fonts are another new frontier in font development. Currently there are only a few color fonts available. One is Trajan Color Concept, now if I select one of these letters, you will see that I get a list of alternates. So if I want to change the color, I can just do so by selecting the alternate. I can also select the alternates on the glyphs panel. Now admittedly, we can get this kind of look using layer styles, but because the color fonts are scalable vector graphics, they will render more crisply than layer effects. Emoji1 contains all the emojis in Unicode Version 9, and you can use the glyphs panel to search for the emoji that you're after. I need to change this to view the entire font, and I have a great range of different emojis to choose from. And who doesn't love avocados? A particularly good ambassador for the potential of this new font format is gilbert, designed by Fontself, each glyph has several alternates and you can access them on the menu that…
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