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About the sources






A font is a complete set of characters (letters, numbers, and symbols) that share a common thickness, width, and style, such as the Adobe Garamond Bold 10-point style.

Font types (often called families of types or font families) are sets with the same look designed for joint use, such as Adobe Garamond.

A text style is a variant of a single font in a font family. Normally, the Latin or Unformatted member (the name varies depending on the family) of a font family is the base font, which can include text styles, such as normal, bold, seminegrita, italics, and bold italics. If a font does not include the style you want, you can apply faux styles (simulated versions of the styles bold, italics, superscript, subscript, all in capitals and small caps).

The fonts include many characters besides those seen on the keyboard. Depending on the font, these characters can include ligatures, fractions, flowery letters, ornaments, ordinals, stylistic alternatives and for titles, upper and lower characters, old style figures and line figures. A pictogram is a specific form of a character. For example, in certain sources, the capital letter A is available in several forms, such as a decorative character and small capital.

To make the fonts available in Photoshop and other Adobe Creative Suite applications, you must install them in these system folders:

Windows

Windows / Sources
Mac OS

Bookstore / Fonts
Preview sources
You can view examples of a font in the font family and font style menus in the Character panel and other areas of the application from which you can select fonts. The following icons are used to indicate different types of sources:
Typekit fonts
OpenType
Type 1
TrueType
Multiple Master
OpenType SVG
OpenType variable fonts
To turn off the preview function or change the point size of the font names, choose Text> Font Preview Size, and then select an option.

Matching fonts
Introduced in the Photoshop CC version 2015.5

Eliminate the uncertainty when identifying certain sources and let Photoshop CC deal with the most difficult. Thanks to the magic of intelligent image analysis, with only one image from a Latin source, Photoshop CC uses automatic learning to detect which source it is, compares them with the licensed sources of your device or Typekit and suggests similar sources.

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Find sources that match the sources of an image

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Find sources that match the sources of an image

Follow these steps:

Select the area of ​​the image that contains the text whose source you want to analyze.
Select Text> Font Matching. Photoshop displays a list of sources similar to the one in the image, including Typekit fonts.
If necessary, uncheck the option Show available sources to synchronize from Typekit to see only the sources available locally on the computer.
In the results, click on the font closest to the one in the image.
Click on OK Photoshop selects the font you clicked on.
Note:

The functions of coincidence, classification and similarity of fonts only work currently with characters of the Latin alphabet.

Best practices for selecting text for font matching
Draw the selection box so that it includes a single line of text.
Carefully cut out the selection box for the left and right edges of the text.
Use Match Fonts in a single type of font and style. Do not mix font types and styles in the Match Source selection.
Adjust or correct the perspective of the image before selecting Type> Matching fonts.
Search sources
You can quickly access favorite fonts by "marking them" as favorites.

Choose favorite fonts in Photoshop
"Marked" from favorite sources
When searching for sources, you can limit the results by filtering the sources according to their classification, such as Serif or Sans Serif, or according to their visual similarity. In addition, you can search the fonts installed on your computer or the fonts synchronized from Typekit.

Tools for searching sources
Search for fonts in Photoshop
Quickly find the necessary sources

A. Filter sources by B classification. Show synchronized fonts of Typekit C. "Mark" favorite fonts D. Show similar fonts
Filter

Filter the list of sources by classification, such as Serif, Script and Manuscript.
Introducing Typekit fonts

Only synchronized Typekit fonts are shown in the list.
Presentation of favorite sources

Only fonts marked as favorites are displayed.
Presentation of similar sources

Displays the fonts, including Typekit, that are visually similar to the selected font.
Selecting a font and a font style
Select a font filter in the Character panel or in the options bar. If there is more than one variant of a font family installed on the computer (for example, normal, italics, bold and bold italics), the different variants are grouped under the same menu item. You can display the element and select the desired variant.
Note:

Use the up and down arrow keys to scroll through the list of sources. If you use the key combination Cmd / Ctrl + down arrow in a font family, it is displayed. If you use the key combination Cmd / Ctrl + up arrow in a font family or variant, the font family is collapsed.

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Variants of sources grouped under the same menu item

Notes:

If the font family you have selected does not include a bold or italic style, click the Fake Bold button or the Fake Cursive button in the Character panel to apply a simulated style. You can also choose Fake Bold or Fake Cursive from the Character panel menu.
Try dynamic shortcuts. Dynamic shortcuts are keyboard shortcuts that are available (only in edit mode, in the Character panel menu) for Fake Bold, Fake Cursive, All Caps, Small Verses, Superscript, Subindex, Underline, and Strikethrough.
You can not apply False Bold formatting to warped text.
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You can search for a font family and a style by typing the name in the text box. While you type, the names of fonts that contain the text you are entering will appear. Continue typing until the desired font or style name appears.

Changing the font in several layers
In the Layers panel, select the text layers that you want to change.
In the Character panel, select the text features in the pop-up menus.
About non-available sources and pictogram protection
If a document uses fonts that are not installed in the system, an alert message appears when it is opened. If you later try to edit text layers with missing fonts, Photoshop prompts you to replace them with a matching matching font. If there are several layers with missing fonts, you can speed up the substitution process by selecting Text> Replace all non-available fonts.
Pictogram protection prevents incorrect or illegible characters from appearing if you enter text in other alphabets (for example, Japanese or Cyrillic) after selecting a Latin font. By default, Photoshop provides pictogram protection by automatically selecting an appropriate font. To disable pictogram protection, deselect Enable protection of pictograms that are missing in text preferences.

OpenType fonts
OpenType fonts use a single font file for Windows and Macintosh computers, so you can move files from one platform to another without font substitution and other problems that can cause text to ebb. These fonts can include several features, such as decorative characters and discretionary ligatures, that are not available in the current PostScript and TrueType fonts.

Note:

OpenType fonts have the icon in the font lists.

When working with an OpenType font, you can automatically substitute alternate pictograms, such as ligatures, small caps, fractions, and proportional figures of old style, in your text.

OpenType fonts use a single font file for Windows and Macintosh computers, so you can move files from one platform to another without font substitution and other problems that can cause text to ebb. These fonts can include several features, such as decorative characters and discretionary ligatures, that are not available in the current PostScript and TrueType fonts.

Note:

OpenType fonts have the icon in the font lists.

When working with an OpenType font, you can automatically substitute alternate pictograms, such as ligatures, small caps, fractions, and proportional figures of old style, in your text.

Normal fonts and OpenType
Normal (left) and OpenType (right) fonts

A. Ordinales B. Discretionary ligatures C. Decorative characters
OpenType fonts can include an extended set of characters and layout functions to provide richer linguistic support and advanced typographic control. Adobe OpenType fonts compatible with Central European languages ​​include the word "Pro" as part of the font name in the application font menus. OpenType fonts incompatible with Central European languages ​​are called standard and carry the suffix "Std". All OpenType fonts can also be installed and used in conjunction with PostScript Type 1 and TrueType fonts.

See OpenType for more information on OpenType fonts.

Application of OpenType functions
Make sure you have selected an OpenType font when using the Text tool. If you do not select any text, the setting is applied to the new text that you create.
In the Character panel menu, select one of the following options from the OpenType submenu:
Standard ligatures

Ligatures are typographical substitutions for certain character pairs, such as fi, fl, ff, ffi, and ffl.
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Contextual alternatives

Alternative characters included in some fonts that offer better binding behavior. For example, when Caflisch Script Pro is used with contextual alternatives activated, the pair of letters "bl" of the word "white" are put together so that the effect is more similar to manual writing.
Discretionary ligatures

Typographic substitution characters for letter pairs such as ct, st and ft.
Note:

Although the characters in the ligatures appear to be linked, they are fully editable and the spell checker does not identify them as an error.

Decorative character

Replaces decorative glyphs (stylized letters with extended strokes in the form of exaggerated rubrics).
Old style

The numerals are shorter than normal. Some old-style numerals are below the baseline text.
Stylistic alternatives

It formats stylized characters that create purely aesthetic effects.
Alternatives for titles Formats characters (usually all upper case) designed for use in large elements, such as titles.
Ornaments

Devices that add a personal signature to the font family and that can be used to decorate page titles, such as paragraph markers, text block dividers, or as repeating borders and bands.
Ordinals

Automatically formats ordinal numbers, such as the English words 1st (first) and 2nd (second), with superscript characters. Characters such as the superscript of the second and second Spanish words (2a and 2o) are also written correctly.
Fractions

Automatically formats fractions The numbers separated by a slash (such as 1/2) are converted to a fraction (like) format.
Note:

You can not preview OpenType functions as contextual alternatives, ligatures and pictograms in Photoshop before applying them. However, you can preview and apply OpenType functions using the Adobe Illustrator Pictograms panel. Copy the text, paste it into Adobe Illustrator and use the Pictograms panel to preview and apply the OpenType functions. Then you can paste the text back into Photoshop.

OpenType SVG fonts
Photoshop supports OpenType SVG fonts and includes Trajan Color Concept, as well as the EmojiOne font. These fonts include different colors and gradients in the same pictogram. On the Mac OS platform, Apple's Emoji Color font is compatible to some degree, despite not being an OpenType SVG font.

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OpenType SVG fonts: diversity of colors and gradients

Emoji fonts are an example of OpenType SVG fonts. With Emoji sources, it is possible to include a wide variety of graphic and colorful images, such as emoticons, flags, traffic signs, animals, people, food, emblematic places, etc. In the documents. The OpenType SVG Emoji fonts, like the EmojiOne font, allow you to create compound pictograms from other pictograms. For example, you can create country flags or change the skin color of some pictograms that represent people.

For more information, see Working with SVG fonts.

OpenType variable fonts

OpenType variable fonts support custom attributes such as thickness, width, tilt, optical size, etc. Photoshop includes several variable fonts for which you can adjust the thickness, width, and tilt by using appropriate controllers available in the Properties panel. In the Character panel or the options bar, look for the variable in the source list to search for variable fonts. You can also search for the icon next to the name of the source.

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List of sources: some variable sources
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Properties panel: regulators for variable sources

As you adjust the sliders, Photoshop automatically selects the text style closest to the current settings. For example, when the inclination of a normal text style increases, Photoshop automatically changes it to a cursive variant