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The InDesign Hidden Characters font

The InDesign Hidden Characters font

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The InDesign Hidden Characters font

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- [Nigel] Welcome to type tips. I'm Nigel French. This week, we're going to geek out looking at a typeface called InDesign Hidden. This comes to us from Marc Autret, and it is available on the Indiscripts website. That is a free download, and it comes with a useful PDF explaining its usage. InDesign Hidden is literally what you expect it to be. It is all of those hidden characters that you see in InDesign when you have show hidden characters turned on and you are in the normal view mode. It makes them printable. So this is very useful if you are preparing any sort of documentation or instructional material about InDesign. It saves you having to do screen captures, which of course will degrade if you scale them up. So I have a couple more to enter, and I'm going to do that through the glyphs panel. Making it easier to access what you're after, each hidden character has an alternate that has a label. So I need to look for…

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