![]() ![]() But if instead I were to type h after it, it instantly switches the T out.īut what if I wanted to do that manually. If I were to type r after it sticks with that capital T. ![]() For instance if I were to type the capital letter T you could see it uses the default one. Now to actually type these you don't have to do anything. These are the alternative glyphs and they're included as separate characters in the font. There's this one and there's this one before we get to the letter u. But instead of U being after it we can see there are a few alternatives to the letter T. Now we can see here the standard letter T. Now if we take a look in Font Book and we go to All Fonts and then find Zapfino and then switch to the grid view here then we can look through the different letters in the font. So you could see here how it looks different in the word the as opposed to all of these other words. The font has special instructions in it that say to use a different character for the capital T if it's followed by a lower case h. Now notice how the letter T looks different in the first word here than all the other words. Typically fonts that have alternative glyphs look like this. So let's change this to Zapfino and you could see it looks like something that is handwritten or calligraphy. One font that you probably have on your Mac is called Zapfino. There are no alternatives.But in some fonts there are. So in most fonts, like this one, a capital letter T is always going to look like this. But when people talk about glyphs they usually mean alternative characters. Technically a glyph is just a character in a font. So on some fonts some of the characters will be different depending upon where you use the character. Join us and get exclusive content and course discounts. Go to /patreon.There you could read more about the Patreon Campaign. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 600 viewers just like you. Today let's look at using alternative character glyphs on your Mac. ![]()
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