- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you how to find
any ornaments or any other nonstandard characters
that might be hidden inside a font.
And these are characters that you cannot find using
the character map utility on the PC,
or any of the default options on the Mac.
But Illustrator, just like Indesign and Photoshop,
does a terrific job.
I'll also show you how to create
your own custom ordinal, or superscript character,
using a thing called Baseline Shift.
Alright, so let's go hunting for ornaments.
First notice that my text is no longer selected,
at which point the glyphs panel shows me the contents
of the default font which is Myriad Pro Regular.
But if I once again double click inside my text
to wake it up, the font switches back to Minion Pro Italic.
Now notice, this show option up here in the top left corner
of the panel, which is currently set to entire font.
If you click on it, you'll bring up a long list of filters,
and so, if I select numerators, for example, I see
just the numbers that go before the slash in a fraction,
as well as that special slash character itself.
But I want to take a look at the ornaments.
And now notice, I'm seeing just the ornaments
that are available for this specific font.
Alright, I'll go ahead and zoom about a little bit,
by pressing control minus, or command minus on the Mac,
and I'll alter option drag in order to scroll
that text over a little bit, and I'll select
this bunch of characters here that I want to replace.
And now, I'll double click on this leaf ornament right here,
which as you can see, above my cursor, is ornament
number 13, and I'll go ahead and double click on it,
in order to add it to my text, like so.
Now I want it to be a little larger,
so I'll go ahead and select it,
and then I'll press control shift greater than sign
or command shift greater than on a Mac
three times in a row, in order to increase the type size
to 22 points, as we're seeing up here in the control panel.
Alright, I'll go ahead and make my glyphs panel
a little smaller here, and I'll drag it out of the way,
so that I can see the contents of the swatches panel.
Notice that my fill is active,
and so I'll click on this deep red, R193G39B45,
in order to change the color of that leaf, like so.
Alright, so, here's another way to work.
I'm going to close the glyphs panel for a moment,
and I'll press the control and shift keys,
that's command and shift on the Mac,
and scroll down using the scroll wheel on my mouse,
which is going to scroll very quickly to the right.
And then, I'll select this bullet symbol, and notice
my alternate glyphs include a bunch of ornaments.
This arrowhead right here shows me that there are
more alternates than fit in the pop up.
And so I'll click that arrowhead, and Illustrator
brings back the glyphs panel, with show this time,
set to alternates for current selection.
And notice that one of my alternates is this check mark,
which looks pretty darn cool, and so you never know
what kind of ornaments you're going to find.
I don't want that, however, so I'll press control z,
or command z on the Mac, and then I'll once again
double click on that same leaf.
And just for the sake of variety, I'll go ahead and
scrub that type size value up to 22 point again
using the scroll wheel on my mouse, and I'll go ahead
and fill that character with that same shade of red.
Alright, now, there's just one more thing I want to do.
I'll control shift or command shift scroll
to my last name here, and I want to replace this lowercase c,
with a properly ordinal c.
And so, I'll go ahead and select that letter,
and notice this time I'm seeing just a single alternate,
which is the small cap, and the reason we're seeing
two "c"s in the panel, by the way, is because one of them
is the currently selected letter.
And now if I hover over that character once again,
and I click on that alternate, I'm going to see a small
designer version of a capital letter c.
That's not what I want, so I'll undo that change,
and so the moral of the story here,
is that you're not always going to see
the exact glyph that you're looking for.
And that's because glyphs are limited
to just those characters that are actually
available inside a given font.
But of course, when you run into a wall,
there's usually a solution.
And so what I'm going to do, is close the glyphs panel,
just to free up some space on screen,
and then I'll scroll up a bit, so I can keep an eye
on that selected text, and I'll click on the word
character up here in the control panel,
and notice this guy right here, this option that says
set the baseline shift, that allows you to either
raise or lower the character with respect to its baseline,
which is the imaginary horizontal line
upon which a row of characters rests.
So, notice, if I hover over this value, and I scroll down,
I will lower the selected character,
and then if I scroll up, I will raise that character.
And once I achieve a value of 3 points,
everything looks great.
At which point, I'll press the enter key,
or the return key on the Mac, to dismiss that panel,
followed by the escape key,
in order to exit the text editing mode.
And we end up with this nice looking ordinal version
of the c, as well as these wonderful leaf ornaments,
and that swatch version of the lowercase m.
And that's how you work with the glyphs panel, alternate
glyphs, and the baseline shift formatting attribute,
here inside the most recent edition of Illustrator CC.