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Making the web more beautiful, fast, and open through great typography. Example of fonts and typefaces designed by London & New York-based independent type foundry Colophon used in logo and brand identity design projects.
Typekit is now called Adobe Fonts and is included with Creative Cloud and other subscriptions. Learn more.
A font isa complete set of characters—letters, numbers, and symbols—that sharea common weight, width, and style, such as 10‑pt Adobe GaramondBold.
Typefaces (oftencalled type families or font families)are collections of fonts that share an overall appearance, and aredesigned to be used together, such as Adobe Garamond.
A type style is a variant version of an individualfont in a font family. Typically, the Roman or Plain (theactual name varies from family to family) member of a font familyis the base font, which may include type styles such as regular,bold, semibold, italic, and bold italic.
Youcan view samples of a font in the font family and font style menusin the Character panel and other areas in the application from whereyou can choose fonts. The following icons are used to indicate differentkinds of fonts:
- OpenType
- OpenType SVG
- Type 1
- TrueType
- Adobe Fonts
- Multiple Master
- Composite
You can turn off the preview feature or change the point size of the font names or font samples in Type preferences.
For information on installing and activating fonts to be used in all applications, see your system documentation or your font manager documentation.
You can make fonts available in InCopy by copying the font files into the Fonts folder inside the InCopy application folder on your hard drive. However, fonts in this Fonts folder are available only to InCopy .
If two or more fonts are active in InCopy and use the same family name but have different Adobe PostScript names, the fonts are available in InCopy . Duplicate fonts are listed in the menus with their font technologies abbreviated in parentheses. For example, a Helvetica TrueType font appears as “Helvetica (TT),” a Helvetica PostScript Type 1 font appears as “Helvetica (T1),” and a Helvetica OpenType font appears as “Helvetica (OTF).” If two fonts have the same PostScript name and one includes .dfont in its name, the other font is used.
OpenTypefonts use a single font file for both Windows® andMacintosh® computers, so you can move filesfrom one platform to another without worrying about font substitutionand other problems that cause text to reflow. They may include anumber of features, such as swashes and discretionary ligatures,that aren’t available in current PostScript and TrueType fonts.
When working with an OpenType font, you can automatically substitute alternateglyphs, such as ligatures, small capitals, fractions, and old styleproportional figures, in your text.
A. Ordinals B. Discretionaryligatures C. Swashes
OpenType fonts may include an expanded character set and layoutfeatures to provide richer linguistic support and advanced typographiccontrol. OpenType fonts from Adobe that include support for centralEuropean (CE) languages include the word “Pro,” as part of the fontname in application font menus. OpenType fonts that don’t containcentral European language support are labeled “Standard,” and havean “Std” suffix. All OpenType fonts can also be installed and usedalongside PostScript Type 1 and TrueType fonts.
For more information on OpenType fonts, see www.adobe.com/go/opentype.
Apply OpenType font attributes using Character panel or Control panel
Use the Character panel or Control panel toapply OpenType font attributes, such as fractions and swashes totext.
For more information on OpenType fonts, see www.adobe.com/go/opentype.
- In the Character panel or Control panel, make sure thatan OpenType font is selected.
- Choose OpenType from the Character panel menu, and thenselect an OpenType attribute, such as Discretionary Ligatures orFractions.
Features not supported in the current font appear insquare brackets, such as [Swash].
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You canalso select OpenType font attributes when defining a paragraph or characterstyle. Use the OpenType Features section of the Style Options dialogbox.
Apply OpenType font attributes using in-context menu
Use the on-context menu to apply the OpenType font attributes applicable to the selected text.
- Select an OpenType attribute, such as Ordinals or Fractions, from the pop-up window.
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If you see a badge after selecting the text or text frame, click the badge to see the list of OpenType attributes.
When you use an OpenType font, you can selectspecific OpenType features from the Control panel or Character panelmenu when formatting text or when defining styles.
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OpenTypefonts vary greatly in the number of type styles and kinds of features theyoffer. If an OpenType feature is unavailable, it’s surrounded insquare brackets (such as [Swash]) in the Control panel menu.
Font designers may include optional ligatures that shouldn’tbe turned on in all circumstances. Selecting this option allowsthese additional optional ligatures to be used, if they are present.For more information on ligatures, see Applyligatures to letter pairs.
Many compound character glyphsfor Japanese katakana words, such as “me-toru” and for Kanji compounds,such as “yuugenkaisha,” can be accessed using the discretionaryligature feature.
Numbers separated by a slash (such as 1/2) are convertedto a fraction character, when fractions are available.
Ordinal numbers such as 1st and 2nd are formattedwith superscript letters (1st and 2nd) whenordinals are available. Letters such as the superscript a and o inthe Spanish words segunda (2a) and segundo (2o)are also typeset properly.
When available, regular and contextual swashes, which mayinclude alternate caps and end-of-word alternatives, are provided.
When available, characters used for uppercase titles are activated.In some fonts, selecting this option for text formatted in both uppercaseand lowercase letters can yield undesired effects.
When available, contextual ligatures and connecting alternatesare activated. Alternate characters are included in some script typefacesto provide better joining behavior. For example, the letter pair“bl” in the word “bloom” can be joined so that it looks more likehandwriting. This option is selected by default.
For fonts that include real small caps, selecting this optionturns characters into small caps. For more information, see Changethe case of type.
Selecting this options displays the number 0 witha diagonal slash through it. In some fonts (especially condensedfonts), it can be difficult to distinguish between the number 0 andthe capital letter O.
Some OpenType fonts include alternate glyph sets designedfor esthetic effect. A stylistic set is a group ofglyph alternates that can be applied one character at a time orto a range of text. If you select a different stylistic set, the glyphsdefined in the set are used instead of the font’s default glyphs.If a glyph character in a stylistic set is used in conjunction withanother OpenType setting, the glyph from the individual settingoverrides the character set glyph. You can see the glyphs for eachset using the Glyphs panel.
In some cursive scripts and in languages such as Arabic,what a character looks like can depend on its position inside aword. The character may change form when it appears at the start(initial position), middle (medial position), or end (final position)of a word, and it may change form as well when it appears alone(isolated position). Select a character and choose a Positional Formsoption to format it correctly. The General Form option inserts thecommon character; the Automatic Form option inserts a form of thecharacter according to where the character is located in the wordand whether the character appears in isolation.
Some OpenType fonts include raised or lowered glyphs thatare sized correctly relative to the surrounding characters. If anOpenType font doesn’t include these glyphs for non-standard fractions,consider using the Numerator and Denominator attributes.
Some OpenType fonts convert only basic fractions (such as1/2 or 1/4) to fraction glyphs, not non-standard fractions (suchas 4/13 or 99/100). Apply Numerator and Denominator attributes tothese non-standard fractions in such cases.
Same widths are provided for full-height figures. This optionis appropriate in situations where numbers need to line up fromone line to the next, as in tables.
Varying-height figures with varying widths are provided.This option is recommended for a classic, sophisticated look intext that doesn’t use all caps.
Full-height figures with varying widths are provided. This optionis recommended for text that uses all caps.
Varying-height figures with fixed, equal widths are provided. Thisoption is recommended when you want the classic appearance of old-style figures,but you need them to align in columns, as in an annual report.
Figure glyphs use the default figure style of the current font.
Characters are composed using the proportional metrics ofthe font.
For fonts that include Kana for vertical or horizontal writing, Kanaglyphs most appropriate for horizontal or vertical settings areprovided.
If the font contains italic glyphs, the proportional Romanglyph switches to italic type.
The Glyphs panel includes a number of options,such as Expert Forms or JIS 90 Forms, that you can apply to selectedtext.
- Select the character or characters to which you’d liketo apply glyph forms.
- Choose anoption such as Expert Forms or JIS 90 from the Glyphs panel menu.
InCopy supports OpenType SVG fonts such as colored fonts and emoji fonts. OpenType SVG fonts provide multiple colors and gradients in a single glyph.
OpenType SVG fonts: Multiple colors and gradients
Using Emoji fonts, you can include various colorful and graphical characters, such as smileys, flags, street signs, animals, people, food, and landmarks in your documents. OpenType SVG emoji fonts, such as the EmojiOne font, let you create certain composite glyphs from one or more other glyphs. For example, you can create the flags of countries or change the skin color of certain glyphs depicting people and body parts such as hands and nose.
Glyphs panel showing EmojiOne SVG font characters
- Set the font to an OpenType SVG font. These fonts are marked with in the font list.
- Select specific glyphs using the Glyphs Panel. To view the Glyphs Panel, select Type > Glyphs. Alternatively, you can open the Glyphs panel by selecting Window > Type & Tables > Glyphs.
For the purpose of illustration, let's consider EmojiOne, an OpenType SVG emoji font. You can composite several EmojiOne OpenType SVG font characters to create glyphs.
For example, you can create the flags of countries or change the skin color of single-person or body part default characters usually colored , , or .
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Glyphs in an emoji font, such as the EmojiOne, are distinct from the letters on your keyboard. These glyphs are treated as distinct characters and are available only through the Glyphs Panel rather than the keyboard.
The 'letters” (A, B, C, D, and so on) in EmojiOne do not correspond to the corresponding keys on the keyboard. When you combine these characters in the Glyphs Panel to make up a country’s ISO code, the two characters form the flag of that country. For example, US gives the American flag, GB gives the British flag, AR gives the Argentine flag, and IN gives the Indian flag.
Combine single-person default characters; usually colored , , or ; or body parts with any of the available skin colors. The original default character is recolored to match the selected skin color. Such composites currently do not generally work with glyphs having more than one person.
Combine single-person characters with skin colors
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- The single-person characters or body parts emojis can be matched with any of the skin colored characters only once.
- Composite glyphs are a font feature. Not all OpenType SVG fonts let you combine characters to create composite glyphs.
- You can decompose some EmojiOne composites into their constituent characters.
You can select a text in your document to preview the fonts in real time. To see the preview of a selected text , hover the pointer over a font name in the font list available in the Control panel or Character panel.
To preview the font style in real time, expand the font family from the font menu and hover the pointer over the font style.
To turn off the preview options, do the following:
- Choose Edit > Preferences.
- In the Type Preferences, deselect the Enable in-menu font previews option.
To change the font size of the selected or the sample text and view the preview in real time, click the Show smaler sample text size, Show default sample text size, and Show larger sample text size.
Quickly find the fonts that you use often by starring individual font families as favorites or selecting from recently used fonts that appear on top of the font list. Recently used and starred fonts are preserved across InCopy sessions.
A. Recently used fonts B. Star fonts as favorites
While searching for fonts, you can narrow down the results by filtering fonts by classification, such as Serif, Sans Serif, and Handwritten. Further, you can choose to search among fonts installed on your computer or activated fonts from Adobe Fonts.
You can also search for fonts based on visual similarity (). Fonts closest in visual appearance to the font you're searching for appear on top of the search results. A status strip in the font menu displays the information about the applied filters.
A. Show Fonts By Classification B. Show Favorite Fonts C. Show Recently Added D. Show Activated Fonts
Filter the font list by classification, such as Serif, Script, and Handwritten.
Show only starred fonts marked earlier as favorites.
Show fonts recently added to the font list.
Display only activated fonts from Adobe Fonts in the font list.
You can browse thousands of fonts from hundreds of type foundries from within inCopy, activate them instantly, and use them in your document. Activated fonts are available for use in all Creative Cloud applications.
- Browse the font list and select the font you want.Note: To preview a font in real time on the selected text, hover over the font name.
- Click the Activate icon displayed next to the font. The Activate icon shows a check mark after the font is activated and available for use.
For more information about Adobe Fonts, visit fonts.adobe.com.
Whenyou specify a font, you can select the font family and its typestyle independently. When you change from one font family to another, InCopy attempts to match the currentstyle with the style available in the new font family. For example,Arial Bold would change to Times Bold when you change from Arialto Times.
When you apply a bold or italic style to type, InCopy applies the typeface style specifiedby the font. In most cases, the specific version of bold or italicis applied as expected. However, some fonts may apply a bold oritalic variation that isn’t exactly labeled bold or italic, respectively.For example, some font designers specify that when you apply boldto a font, the semibold variation is applied.
- In the Character panel or Control panel,select a font in the Font Family menu or a style in the Type Stylemenu. (In Mac OS, you can select type styles in the FontFamily submenus.)
- In the Character panel or Control panel, click infront of the font family name or type style name (or double-clickits first word) and type in the first few characters of the nameyou want. As you type, InCopy displaysfont family or type style names that match the characters you’vetyped.
- Choose a font in the Type > Font menu.Note that you choose both a font family and a type style when youuse this menu.
Bydefault, typeface size is measured in points (a pointequals 1/72 of an inch). You can specify any typeface size from0.1 to 1296 points, in 0.001‑point increments.
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In Fireworks,the typeface size is measured in pixels by default.
- Select the characters or type objects you wantto change. If you don’t select any text, the typeface size appliesto new text you create.
- In the Character panel or Control bar set the Font Size option.
- Choose a size from the Type > Size menu. Choosing Other lets you type a new size in the Character panel.
Note:You can change the unit of measurement for type in the Preferences dialog box. This option is not available in Fireworks.
For more information on OpenType fonts, see www.adobe.com/go/opentype.
Select the units for font attribute settings.
By default, InCopy protectsyou from typing characters that the current font does not supportor from applying a font to a selection of text when that font doesnot contain one or more of the glyphs selected. However, you can turnoff preference settings to remove this protection.
- Choose Edit > Preferences > AdvancedType (Windows) or InCopy > Preferences >Advanced Type (Mac OS).
- Select this option so that you cannot type glyphs that thecurrent font does not support.Select this option to avoid introducing unsupported glyphswhen a different font, such as a Roman font, is applied to Asian-languagetext.
When you open or place documents that include fonts not installed on your system, an alert message appears, indicating which fonts are missing. If you select text that uses a missing font, the Character panel or Control panel indicates that this font is missing by displaying it in brackets in the font style pop‑up menu.
InCopy substitutes missing fonts with an available font. When this happens, you can select the text and apply any other available font. Missing fonts for which others have been substituted will appear at the top of the Type > Font menu in a section marked “Missing Fonts.” By default, text formatted with missing fonts appears in pink highlighting.
If a TrueType font is installed and the document contains a Type 1 (T1) version of the same font, the font is displayed as missing.
You can choose Type > Find Font to find and change missing fonts. If a missing font is part of a style, you can update the font in that style by changing its style definition.
InCopy’s missing fonts dialog displays whether Adobe Fonts service is enabled in the Creative Cloud application. If it is disabled, you also have an option on the Missing fonts dialog itself to enable Adobe Fonts.
- Activate missing fonts from Adobe Fonts service. For more information, see Add fonts from the Adobe Fonts service.
- Install the missing fonts on your system.
- Place the missing fonts in the Fonts folder, which is located in the InCopy application folder. Fonts in this folder are available only to InCopy . See Installing fonts.
- Activate the missing fonts using a font-management application.
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If you don’t have access to the missingfonts, use the Find Font command to search for and replace missingfonts.
If the Substituted Fonts preferences option is selected, text formatted with missing fonts appears in pink highlighting so that you can easily identify text formatted with a missing font.
- Choose Edit > Preferences > Composition (Windows®) or InCopy > Preferences > Composition (Mac OS®).
Fonts in a Document Fonts folder that is in the same location as an InCopy document are temporarily installed when the document is opened. The Package command can generate a Document Fonts folder when you want to share your document or move it to a different computer.
Fonts in the Document Fonts folder are not the same as fonts available from the standard operating system font locations. They are installed when the document is opened and supersede any font of the same PostScript name. However, they supersede only fonts within the document. Fonts installed by one document are not available to other documents. When you close the document, the fonts that were installed for the document are uninstalled. Document installed fonts are listed in a submenu of the Font menu.
Some Type1 fonts are not available in the document. In addition, Mac OS fonts are not available when running InCopy in Windows.
For a video on using document installed fonts, see http://tv.adobe.com/go/4955/.
Multiplemaster fontsare customizable Type 1 fonts whose typeface characteristics aredescribed in terms of variable design axes, such as weight, width,style, and optical size.
Some multiple master fonts includean optical size axis, which lets you use a font specifically designedfor optimal readability at a particular size. Generally, the opticalsize for a smaller font, such as 10 point, is designed with heavierserifs and stems, wider characters, less contrast between thickand thin lines, taller x height, and looser spacing between lettersthan the optical size for a larger font, such as 72 point.
- Choose Edit > Preferences >Type (Windows) or InCopy > Preferences >Type (Mac OS).
- Select Automatically Use Correct Optical Size, and click OK.
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