This tip was sent to Tip of the Week email subscribers on April 14, 2016.
Sign up now and every week you’ll get a new InDesign Tip of the Week and Keyboard Shortcut of the Week, along with roundups of new articles at InDesignSecrets, plus exclusive deals sent right to your Inbox!
Just scroll all the way down to the bottom of this page, enter your email address, and click Go! We’ll take care of the rest. Now, on with the tip!
Need an accented character that doesn’t exist in the font you’re using? You might be able to create your own custom accented character if the font has the floating accent. Use the Glyph panel (Type > Glyphs) to browse the font for the accent.
Add the accent after the character in the text, by double-clicking the accent in the Glyphs panel. Then use baseline shift and kerning to center the accent over the character.
You might also need to increase the kerning between the accent and the following character to compensate.
This article was last modified on July 25, 2019
This article was first published on April 19, 2016
Commenting is easier and faster when you're logged in!
Recommended for you
Out of Gamut: Color-Correct Vocabulary
For some time now I’ve been explicating the finer points of color manageme...
CreativePro Week Conference Speaker Spotlight: Keith Gilbert, the Typeface Geek
Welcome to our Speaker Spotlight series, designed to highlight some of our Creat...
Before&After Design Tip: Use Text to Frame Your Image
Text and photos must work together to convey a message