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Swatches, contextual alternates, glyphs, ligatures… if you’re not familiar with how to use these font features, they can be a little intimidating to start with. However, once you master them, you really open up so many more possibilities when working with great fonts.

After getting so many questions about how to use the extra characters, glyphs and swashes available with the fonts in our current Monster Creative Font Bundle, Simon has been kind enough to put together this comprehensive guide.

This tutorial is a bonus tutorial, that leads on from Simon’s in depth poster design tutorial. You’ll learn exactly how to unlock the hundreds of extra characters and symbols available to you with these, or any extensive opentype fonts. To Simon!

Hey Design Cutters! One of the things I realized from my poster tutorial is that it’s using only two typefaces out of the ten families offered in the deal. While it makes sense from a design standpoint (ever heard of the “no more than three fonts” rule?), it doesn’t really do justice to the other amazing options that you have at your fingertips.

Let’s have a look again at the beautiful typefaces that are included in the creative font bundle.

Daft Brush by Pintassilgo Prints

Brush Up by Pintassilgo Prints

The Amorie type family

D-I-Y Time (Complete Hand-Drawn Type System) by Latino Type

Four Seasons by Latino Type

Julietta by Latino Type

Showcase by Latino Type

Thirsty Rough by Yellow Design Studio

Gist by Yellow Design Studio

Microbrew by Albatross Studio

So, what about these typefaces?

All these typefaces have something in common. They feature characteristics (hand-drawn style and/or aging artifacts) that, in regular typefaces, would very obnoxiously show everyone that this type piece or block has been written using a typeface. Why? A lot of typefaces include only one set of characters. This means that you’ll only have access to one rendition of the letter “A” for instance (the most frequently used letter in the English language). The imperfections that should be part of a hand-lettered piece won’t be there, and the resulting piece will clearly be identifiable as a typeface, rather than a manually crafted type element.

But these aren’t “regular” typefaces. The creators of all these type families have painstakingly created alternative versions for their characters (along with some other cool goodies, like swashes, shadows, etc.), so the type blocks you’ll be writing don’t feature the same letter “A” all the time. This system of alternate characters allows compatible applications to be able to make your pieces look a bit more organic, and yet to keep the ease of use and flexibility of a typeface. That’s a bit of a summary, and if we had time I’d talk a little bit about the history of typeface file formats (OTF vs. TTF vs. AAT vs. Graphite), but that’s going to be for another time.

Luckily for us, both Illustrator and Photoshop allow us to use these alternates, swashes, and other awesome tips and tricks.

Using Photoshop’s Character panel

Setting up a document

I started by creating a 1920×1200 pixels @ 72 dpi document in Photoshop. Since this document is for on-screen demo purposes only, no need to create a print-ready document.

Anticipating on a potential Design Cuts-themed wallpaper design, I’ve added a few horizontal and vertical guides to get me a grid. My guides are at 300, 600, and 900 pixels horizontally, and at 960 pixels vertically.

Following that wallpaper idea, let’s add the Design Cuts color palette in my document. I’ve sampled the colors directly from the DC website (top: white – #ffffff, middle section: green – #1abc9c, and bottom section: blue – #34495e). The bottom section covers half of the canvas, while the middle and top parts cover a fourth each.

Contextual alternates and stylistic alternates

I used Brush Up in the tutorial, and took advantage of its alternates characters, but I didn’t get to use Daft Brush. Let’s fix this.

As you can see on the type panel, I simply typed the text. I didn’t check any of the magic boxes at the bottom. Let’s engage the Contextual alternate functionality on.

Surprise! Our characters have changed.

Now, notice how we have two identical “S” letters in our type piece. Well, you could apply the Contextual alternate functionality only on “CUTS,” so it would look like someone quickly brush-penned that piece down. Start by turning the button off for the whole type layer, and then highlight “CUTS.”

Then turn the button back on. Only “CUTS” will be affected this time. Nifty, huh?

Another nifty feature that’s supported by most of these typefaces is called Stylistic alternates.

These are yet another set of alternate characters you could bring in your type treatment to preserve its organic vibe. The styles depend of what the designer created for each typeface. In Daft Brush’s case, they look something like this:

Say you like the effect, but just want to apply it on the “N?” Ask, and you shall receive.

I simply turned the Stylistic alternates back off, selected just the “N,” and turned the alternates back on.

Simple enough, right? Based on these substitutions and alternate character sets, the Open Type format is capable of much, much more. But I’ll need to use a different typeface to demonstrate them.

Swashes

Swashes are a quick way to make a type element stand out as the focal point of your piece. Let’s use Amorie Nova Bold to get a sense of what these are about.

Start with everything turned off.

My first order of business is to make sure that the two “S” look different, thanks to the Contextual alternates.

Let’s turn on the swashes!

The results are, let’s say, overwhelming.

Just like that “S” that I didn’t want to be displayed identical to the one prior, I’m going to turn the feature on only a few selected letters.

Much better, right? I left the swash active on the “D,” “G,” “C,” and “S.” It’s also worth noting that I had to size the “N” down quite a bit (from 258 points to 222 points) so it wouldn’t get “tangled up” in the G’s swash.

Here’s a view of the text on blue, so you can appreciate it in its entirety.

Given the level of care of the designers of all these typefaces, you’ll have quite a few combinations to try out and experiment with. Sometimes, the exact letter form you’ll be looking for will be available when turning the contextual alternates on on a swashed-out drop cap… Have fun.

One more thing we need to talk about: Illustrator’s Glyphs panel

I know that most of the readership here at Design Cuts favors Photoshop, and that’s okay. But I’d like to give Illustrator some love, especially that we’re talking about manipulating text, and since that functionality is available in Illustrator only (and InDesign, too). It’s called the Glyphs panel.

I’ve recreated my document in Illustrator, nothing fancy.

If Glyphs panel isn’t showing up by default, you can make it visible through the Window > Type > Glyphs menu.

Using Glyphs In Adobe Illustrator For Mac