From the course: Photoshop for Designers: Type Essentials

The Glyphs panel - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop for Designers: Type Essentials

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The Glyphs panel

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- [Instructor] Photoshop's glyphs panel will give us access to those characters that aren't readily accessible on the keyboard, things like the copyright symbol, trademark symbol, and other special characters, fractions, foreign accents, and alternate characters. The range of glyphs available in any font is going to vary from font to font. If you're working with an open type pro typeface, the character set will be much larger. Let's say I would like to replace half with three quarters, so I'm going to take my type tool and select the half, and then come to the type menu and to panels, glyphs. I also have it over here as part of my saved type workspace. In the glyphs panel, I'll tear this off, just for ease of access and enlarge it, I can zoom in and zoom out by using the slider, or by using the icons to the left and right of the slider. I can also scale the glyph within its square, using these two icons. I can change the font that I'm viewing, and importantly, I can use this menu to see a subset of my font. And I, in this case, want to see the numbers, because the numbers are where I will find my fractions, and then I can just double click to insert my three quarters into position. One more thing, and that's that you'll see a row of your recently used glyphs at the top of the panel.

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