Previewing fonts, Select a font family and style – Adobe Illustrator CS4 User Manual
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USING ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CS4
Type
When working with an OpenType font, you can automatically substitute alternate glyphs, such as ligatures, small
capitals, fractions, and old style proportional figures, in your text.
Regular (left) and OpenType (right) fonts
A. Ordinals B. Discretionary ligatures C. Swashes
OpenType fonts may include an expanded character set and layout features to provide richer linguistic support and
advanced typographic control. OpenType fonts from Adobe that include support for central European (CE) languages
include the word “Pro,” as part of the font name in application font menus. OpenType fonts that don’t contain central
European language support are labeled “Standard,” and have an “Std” suffix. All OpenType fonts can also be installed
and used alongside PostScript Type 1 and TrueType fonts.
For more information on OpenType fonts, see
Previewing fonts
You can view samples of a font in the font family and font style menus in the Character panel and other areas in the
application from where you can choose fonts. The following icons are used to indicate different kinds of fonts:
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OpenType
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Type 1
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TrueType
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Multiple Master
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Composite
You can turn off the preview feature or change the point size of the font names or font samples in Type preferences.
Select a font family and style
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Select the characters or type objects you want to change. If you don’t select any text, the font applies to new text you
create.
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Select a font family and style using the Control panel, Type menu, or Character panel:
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In the Control panel, set the Font and Font Style options.
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In the Type menu, select a name from the Font or Recent Fonts submenu. Using the Font menu is convenient
because it displays a preview of the available fonts.
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In the Character panel, set the Font Family and Font Style options. In addition to choosing a name from the pop-up
menus, you can click the current name and type in the first few characters of the name you want.
To change the number of fonts in the Recent Fonts submenu, choose Edit > Preferences > Type (Windows) or
Illustrator > Preferences > Type (Mac OS), and set the Number Of Recent Fonts option.
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