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Finding characters with the emoji and symbols viewer

Finding characters with the emoji and symbols viewer

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Finding characters with the emoji and symbols viewer

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- [Instructor] We use the Glyphs panel to find specific glyphs, but if you want to compare a glyph across a range of fonts, then we can use the Emoji & Symbols viewer on a Mac. A Windows equivalent would be this free utility called BabelMap. I'm on a Mac, so I'm going to come and choose from my menu bar, Emoji & Symbols. I could also use the keyboard shortcut, Control, Command, and Space. And here I can see subsets of my fonts in this panel on the left. Now, what I'm after is just an ampersand. I have this treatment here and I would like to replace the ampersands, but I'd like to be able to compare different ampersands. So I'm going to come to the search field at top right, and I'll start typing in ampersand, and then it finds me the ampersand character. And here on the right, I have all of these different variations. And I am going to choose, I think I'm going to choose this one, Adobe Jensen Pro Bold Display. So armed with that knowledge, I'll now come back to InDesign and I can…

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