From the course: Creating Fonts with Fontself, Illustrator, and Photoshop
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Creating alternates
From the course: Creating Fonts with Fontself, Illustrator, and Photoshop
Creating alternates
- [Man] Alternates are really cool, especially in display and decorative typefaces, like the ones I'm going to be using in this movie here in Illustrator and momentarily in Photoshop. You'll see here that I've got a lot of duplicate letters, but different glyphs, just here. So duplicate characters, different glyphs for a number of things and if I open up the layers panel, I'm just going to go into the upper case here, you'll see that I've got several, for example, S's. Here, I've got S on its own, then there's another character. Let me just unlock the layer, so you can see them highlight if I just zoom in for you. Just move across, that way you'll see them highlight as I pick on them. So you've got S just here and then, you've got s.altone, so that's saying dot alternative number one and then S.alttwo. Now, sometimes I start off if I've got several variations with just S.alt and then S.altone, S.alttwo and font self gets it…
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