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Variable concept fonts

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Variable concept fonts

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- [Instructor] Photoshop supports a number of special types of fonts, including Variable Concept fonts, which can support custom attributes, like weight, width, slant, and optical size. There are three Variable Concept fonts, Acumin, Myriad, and Minion. So let's select the Type tool by tapping the T key, and then I'll click in the image area and just type in abc, holding down the Command key and the Shift key in order to increase the point size. And then I'll position my cursor away from the typeface and just center it in the middle of the document. I'll commit to that, and then let's take a look at the Properties panel. So when I use the downward-pointing arrow here, in order to select a typeface, you'll notice that some of the typefaces only consist of a single font. There is no dropdown menu here for additional options. But some of them, for example, Arial, have additional options for their font family, including…

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