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- [Instructor] In this movie,
I'll show you how to find

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any ornaments or any other
nonstandard characters

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that might be hidden inside a font.

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And these are characters
that you cannot find using

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the character map utility on the PC,

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or any of the default options on the Mac.

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But Illustrator, just like
Indesign and Photoshop,

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does a terrific job.

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I'll also show you how to create

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your own custom ordinal,
or superscript character,

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using a thing called Baseline Shift.

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Alright, so let's go
hunting for ornaments.

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First notice that my text
is no longer selected,

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at which point the glyphs
panel shows me the contents

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of the default font which
is Myriad Pro Regular.

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But if I once again double
click inside my text

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to wake it up, the font switches
back to Minion Pro Italic.

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Now notice, this show option
up here in the top left corner

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of the panel, which is
currently set to entire font.

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If you click on it, you'll
bring up a long list of filters,

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and so, if I select
numerators, for example, I see

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just the numbers that go
before the slash in a fraction,

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as well as that special
slash character itself.

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But I want to take a
look at the ornaments.

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And now notice, I'm
seeing just the ornaments

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that are available for this specific font.

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Alright, I'll go ahead and
zoom about a little bit,

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by pressing control minus,
or command minus on the Mac,

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and I'll alter option
drag in order to scroll

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that text over a little
bit, and I'll select

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this bunch of characters
here that I want to replace.

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And now, I'll double click on
this leaf ornament right here,

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which as you can see, above
my cursor, is ornament

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number 13, and I'll go ahead
and double click on it,

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in order to add it to my text, like so.

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Now I want it to be a little larger,

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so I'll go ahead and select it,

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and then I'll press control
shift greater than sign

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or command shift greater than on a Mac

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three times in a row, in order
to increase the type size

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to 22 points, as we're seeing
up here in the control panel.

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Alright, I'll go ahead
and make my glyphs panel

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a little smaller here, and
I'll drag it out of the way,

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so that I can see the contents
of the swatches panel.

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Notice that my fill is active,

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and so I'll click on this
deep red, R193G39B45,

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in order to change the
color of that leaf, like so.

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Alright, so, here's another way to work.

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I'm going to close the
glyphs panel for a moment,

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and I'll press the control and shift keys,

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that's command and shift on the Mac,

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and scroll down using the
scroll wheel on my mouse,

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which is going to scroll
very quickly to the right.

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And then, I'll select this
bullet symbol, and notice

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my alternate glyphs include
a bunch of ornaments.

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This arrowhead right here
shows me that there are

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more alternates than fit in the pop up.

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And so I'll click that
arrowhead, and Illustrator

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brings back the glyphs
panel, with show this time,

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set to alternates for current selection.

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And notice that one of my
alternates is this check mark,

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which looks pretty darn
cool, and so you never know

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what kind of ornaments
you're going to find.

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I don't want that, however,
so I'll press control z,

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or command z on the Mac,
and then I'll once again

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double click on that same leaf.

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And just for the sake of
variety, I'll go ahead and

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scrub that type size
value up to 22 point again

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using the scroll wheel on
my mouse, and I'll go ahead

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and fill that character
with that same shade of red.

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Alright, now, there's just
one more thing I want to do.

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I'll control shift or command shift scroll

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to my last name here, and I want
to replace this lowercase c,

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with a properly ordinal c.

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And so, I'll go ahead
and select that letter,

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and notice this time I'm
seeing just a single alternate,

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which is the small cap,
and the reason we're seeing

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two "c"s in the panel, by the
way, is because one of them

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is the currently selected letter.

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And now if I hover over
that character once again,

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and I click on that alternate,
I'm going to see a small

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designer version of a capital letter c.

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That's not what I want,
so I'll undo that change,

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and so the moral of the story here,

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is that you're not always going to see

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the exact glyph that you're looking for.

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And that's because glyphs are limited

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to just those characters that are actually

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available inside a given font.

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But of course, when you run into a wall,

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there's usually a solution.

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And so what I'm going to do,
is close the glyphs panel,

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just to free up some space on screen,

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and then I'll scroll up a
bit, so I can keep an eye

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on that selected text,
and I'll click on the word

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character up here in the control panel,

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and notice this guy right
here, this option that says

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set the baseline shift,
that allows you to either

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raise or lower the character
with respect to its baseline,

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which is the imaginary horizontal line

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upon which a row of characters rests.

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So, notice, if I hover over
this value, and I scroll down,

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I will lower the selected character,

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and then if I scroll up, I
will raise that character.

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And once I achieve a value of 3 points,

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everything looks great.

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At which point, I'll press the enter key,

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or the return key on the
Mac, to dismiss that panel,

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followed by the escape key,

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in order to exit the text editing mode.

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And we end up with this
nice looking ordinal version

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of the c, as well as these
wonderful leaf ornaments,

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and that swatch version
of the lowercase m.

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And that's how you work with
the glyphs panel, alternate

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glyphs, and the baseline
shift formatting attribute,

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here inside the most recent
edition of Illustrator CC.