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• • November 30, 2021 at 4:08 pm #14351172
    John Kelsall

    Member

    Hi All

    I have used the Gill Sans Nova font that is part of the Creative Cloud as it is very close to Gill Sans Std but carries so many more characters. However, the publisher that I’m working for does not like the number ‘1’ in Gill Sans Nova as it looks completely different from the normal Gill Sans Std one. The normal number one in Gill Sans is just straight up and could be confused as a capital I, and the Gill Sans Nova number 1 has a tail on it and so is not straight.

    However, when I go to the Glyphs panel and to ‘numbers’ in Gill Sans Nova there I can find the straight number 1 that looks exactly like the one in Gill Sans Std and it has the same Unicode 0031 but the GID is different. So my question is, how do I make it so that this alternative number 1 in the Gill Sans Nova font comes out automatically everytime a ‘1’ is used, rather than inserting it from the Glyphs panel? I cannot see how I can access this number 1 without the Glyphs panel. I could do a search and replace, but I would like it to be inserted automatically.

    I’m presuming in the Open Type features of paragraph or character styles you can select this alternative number, but I can’t work out how to do it.

    I hope I’ve made this clear. Can anybody help?

    Thanks in advance.
    Johnny

  • November 30, 2021 at 9:31 pm #14351190
    Dhafir Photo

    Participant

    Make character style for “Gill Sans Std” font family
    then use GREP Style for number 1 with the character style

  • November 30, 2021 at 10:35 pm #14351192
    Petar Petrenko

    Participant

    Look for “OpenType features > Figure Style” in you paragraph style and choose “Tabular Lining”.

  • November 30, 2021 at 11:35 pm #14351193
    Godfried Vonk

    Participant

    Choose ‘stylistic set 3’ in the openType settings.

    • December 1, 2021 at 7:43 am #14351212
      John Kelsall

      Member

      Thanks Godfried, but how did you know about stylistic set 3 and what each stylistic set offers?

      You don’t have to answer that, but thanks for giving me the heads-up.

      Cheers
      Johnny

  • December 1, 2021 at 7:40 am #14351208
    John Kelsall

    Member

    First of all, thank you all for helping me with tackling this problem.

    The solution was by Godfried with his ‘Stylistic set 3’. By making it this the alternative 1 came out correctly.

    Thanks again
    John

  • December 1, 2021 at 12:10 pm #14351221
    Godfried Vonk

    Participant

    >>Thanks Godfried, but how did you know about stylistic set 3 and what each stylistic set offers?

    I installed the font and tried…
    Font designers can offer glyph alternatives in these sets.
    In the glyphs panel you can see what the different sets offer. (glyphs panel > show > stylistic set 1, 2, etc.)
    In a paragraph style you can specify which set you want to use for a specific font (you can choose more sets if you want)

  • December 1, 2021 at 1:27 pm #14351231
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Thank you, Godfried!
    Also, here is a good article about finding alternate characters:

    Using Stylistic Sets

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