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Browsing styles of a particular character

Browsing styles of a particular character - InDesign Tutorial

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Browsing styles of a particular character

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- [Instructor] I want to show you a couple of different tricks that I use to quickly go through all of my installed fonts, and also the ones in Adobe.com that I get with my Creative Cloud subscription in search of the perfect character. Like for example, this ampersand in Acme & Moy, it's a cool font. It's Roboto Slab, as you can see, but I think it would look even cooler if this ampersand were a different kind of font, something that had a little bit more oomph and that had a high contrast. So let me show you a few different ways that you can do that. First of all, with it selected, if I go to my type menu, either here in the control panel, or from the character panel, the standalone character panel or even in the Essentials workspace, by clicking on character, you'll get this. Now because I have chosen selected text here, instead of these example samples, use is just a sample. Then I can see that character…

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