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How to Use Alternate Characters in Your Fonts

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How to Use Alternate Characters in Your Fonts

25,353 views October 25, 2017 1:08

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Here's the easy way to use alternate and extra characters included with your fonts in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.

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RetroSupply published this 1:08 video tutorial on October 25, 2017. It has been watched 25,353 times on YouTube.

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  • Taking Type to the Next Level with Alternate Characters ... mediamilitia.com

    By using these alternate characters you can add things like flourishes and flair to your type with ease. Some type faces have alternate characters that can help out with legibility at smaller sizes. Even some handwritte…

  • Bonus Tutorial: How to Use Alternate and Extra Characters ... designcuts.com

    This system of alternate characters allows compatible applications to be able to make your pieces look a bit more organic, and yet to keep the ease of use and flexibility of a typeface. That’s a bit of a summary, and if…

  • Locating Alternate Glyphs | Fonts.com fonts.com

    The best way to ascertain the availability of alternate glyphs in a font is from within your software. That said, bear in mind that the expanded character sets offered in some OpenType fonts are only accessible using so…

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