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You use the Glyphs panel to insert punctuation, superscript & subscript characters, currency symbols, numbers, specialized characters, as well as glyphs from other languages into text in Photoshop.
To access the panel, select Type > Panels > Glyphs panel or Window > Glyphs.
A. Most-recently-used glyphs | B. Set font family | C. Set font style | D. Set font category | E. Glyph slots | F. Zoom out | G. Zoom slider | H. Zoom in | I. Scale down glyphs | J. Scale up glyphs |
- To enter a glyph in an active text layer, do the following:
- Use the Text tool to place an insertion point where you want to place the glyph.
- Double-click a glyph in the Glyphs panel.
- The Glyphs panel supports Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts. There is limited support for Hebrew, Arabic, and other complex scripts, such as Indic scripts.
- For each font, the glyphs are organized into different categories, such as Basic Latin, Latin A, Latin B, Numbers, Currencies, Symbols, etc.
- Glyphs are also organized by the OpenType features that the font supports, such as Alternates, Ornaments, Swash, Numerators, Denominators, Stylish Sets, Tabular Figures, Ordinals, etc.
Glyph category, script, and OpenType features supported by Adobe Garamond Pro font
A. Font Category | B. Script | C. OpenType features
- The Glyphs panel automatically finds alternatives to the first selected character in a run of text.
- Glyph slots with a black-filled rectangle in the lower right corner indicate that there are alternatives available for that specific glyph. These alternatives can be accessed through a pop up by clicking and holding in the slot or Alt/Option clicking anywhere in the slot. Dragging a mouse cursor onto an alternate glyph and releasing it enters the glyph into the active text layer.
Glyph slot with a black-filled rectangle in the lower right corner
- Hover over a glyph slot to get specific details such as glyph ID, unicode value, OpenType feature, and the unicode name of the glyph in question.
- The slider at the bottom of the dialog allows the users to scale up or down the size of the glyphs in the panel.
- The font menu is a full fledged font menu, with the same options as found in the Character panel and the Options bar. Font search, though, is not supported.
- When multiple fonts are present in the Type layer text selection, the font face in the Character panel, Optionsbar, and the Glyphs panel blanks out.
- The Glyphs panel can work without even initializing a type layer.
When you're working in a Type layer, you can select a glyph to quickly view alternatives to it right on the canvas. Clicking the icon in the alternatives grid takes you to the Glyphs panel.
If necessary, you can turn off this behavior. To do so, deselect Preferences > Type > Enable Type Layer Glyph Alternates.
Preference to enable/disable on-canvas glyph alternatives
As you add glyphs to your document, they are automatically added to the most-recently-used glyphs bar located at the top of the Glyphs panel. The most-recently-used glyphs bar:
- can hold up to 25 different characters. Once the limit of 25 characters is reached, new glyphs are added to the left, with older glyphs being removed from the right.
- has persistent content. The content remains the same between different launches of the application.
- retains the font face of a glyph and is not affected by the font face in the Options bar, Character panel, or the Glyphs panel.
- defines the point size, color, and other values of a glyph by the values in the Character panel or the Options bar.
Photoshop now supports SVG fonts that provide multiple colors and gradients in a single glyph. Photoshop ships with the EmojiOne SVG font. The Apple Color Emoji font is also supported on the macOS platform.
Follow these steps to use SVG fonts:
- Open the Glyphs panel (Window > Glyphs).
- Select EmojiOne or Apple Color Emoji (macOS-only) in the font list.
- Double-click an SVG font character to add it to a text layer in the document.
You can composite SVG font characters to create new glyphs. For example, you can create the flags of countries or change the skin color of single-person default characters. Many composite glyphs also disintegrate into their constituent characters when you press the Backspace key.
For more information, see SVG fonts.
Glyphs panel showing EmojiOne SVG font characters
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Photoshop includes support for Indic, Middle Eastern, and South East Asian languages. You can create documents using text from these languages. The World-Ready Layout composer provides correct word shaping for these scripts.
The World-Ready Layout composer supports the following languages:
Indic | Middle Eastern | South East Asian* |
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*Introduced in the October 2018 release of Photoshop CC (20.0) |
Note:
Text features across Adobe applications do not necessarily have feature parity as each application can rely on different text engines. Also, text features can vary according to the primary usage of the application (image editing, page layout, illustration, and so on), so the preservation of formatting, style, and editability across applications can also vary according to the type treatments you choose to apply.
South East Asian (SEA) languages or scripts are not currently supported on all Adobe products. Moving SEA text from an Adobe app that currently supports SEA scripts to an application that does not support them, is likely to result in the loss of some or all text copy and formatting edits. In this case, note the following:
- Image files may need to be flattened before moving from Photoshop to other applications.
- Text files from Adobe Illustrator may need to be converted to outlines before usage in other applications.
- Text conversions may result in a loss of editability when moved from one application to another.
Install relevant language and font packs (Windows)
To use these languages properly on Windows, install the Language and Font packs for the particular language you want to use.
For details, see Microsoft's Help documentation: Language Packs.
Photoshop provides options for selecting your text engine based on the language to be used in your Photoshop document.
To create a document using one of the South East Asian languages:
- Choose Edit > Preferences > Type.
- Under Choose Text Engine Options, select World-Ready Layout.
- Open a document.
- Create a Type layer.
- In the Character panel, set the desired language.
- Based on the language you select, set an appropriate font. For example, if you choose Thai language, set a Thai font such as Adobe Thai or Noto Sans Thai.
- Copy and paste the text composed in the language that you choose. If you have a language-specific keyboard set up, simply type the text.
Choose a preferred text engine option in Type preferences.
Note:
Select the correct and relevant layout, fonts, and language options (dictionary) for script composition to appear correctly.
In the flyout menu of the Paragraph panel, the layouts listed below are available:
- Latin and East Asian Layout: Supports Latin and East Asian languages
- World-Ready Layout: Supports Indic, Middle Eastern, and South East Asian languages
In the Character panel, click the language option to display a list of languages. Select a desired language from the list.
Select the desired language option in the Character panel
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