Digging into the Glyphs Panel
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This article appeared in Issue 25 of CreativePro Magazine.Our keyboards—even those fancy extended keyboards—are so small. Even with every possible combination of modifier keys, most glyphs can’t be accessed with a keyboard and are hidden from view.
When it comes to fonts, those glyphs that you can see—upper- and lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation, and a handful of special characters—represent the tip of the iceberg. And that iceberg can extend way beneath the surface: OpenType fonts have the capacity for up to 65,000 glyphs.
In reality, no font software comes close to having quite this many, but Pro fonts may have a full range of accented Latin characters to support central and Eastern European languages (such as Turkish and Polish) and full sets of glyphs to support alphabets like Cyrillic or Greek, as well as typographic delicacies like discretionary ligatures, real small caps, real fractions, and oldstyle numerals.
As an InDesign user, you should know that you can find such a wealth of resources just beneath the surface. The challenge is how to harness them.
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