The Glyphs panel

One of my favorite features of InDesign is the Glyphs panel. “Glyph” is an all-encompassing word that includes not only the characters of an alphabet, but all the numbers, punctuation marks, fractions, ligatures, ornaments, swashes, foreign characters, special characters, etc., that might be included in a font. The Glyphs panel is particularly important if you’re using a large OpenType font, which can hold up to 16,000 glyphs—there is no way to access many of these glyphs on your keyboard. You can find some of them in the “Special Characters” panel on the Mac or the “Character Map” on a PC, but InDesign makes the process much easier and downright fun.

Task 13 Insert a glyph into your text

1 Create a new text frame, or use one you’ve already got on the screen.