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Garconis
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March 30, 2011
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P: Add a Glyphs panel

  • March 30, 2011
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Why, still, is there no glyphs palette/panel/menu in Photoshop? It's pretty sad that I have to use Illustrator or CopyPasteCharacter.com to get the glyphs I need for my raster designs.

125 replies

Dessirae8
Participating Frequently
October 26, 2014
You can find the full set of glyphs in your font via a different way.
I am a Mac user, and this is what I do:
Open Font Book via the Finder
Find your font, click on it. It is most likely in a "Sample" format. At the top of the window, click Preview, then Repertoire. Your full list of font & glyphs should come up.
Next, to use them, find the glyph you want, click/highlight it, copy (command c) then go to the program you want to use it in and paste (command v). Voila! It should be there now. 🙂
Dessirae8
Participating Frequently
October 26, 2014
You can find the full set of glyphs in your font via a different way.
I am a Mac user, and this is what I do:
Open Font Book via the Finder
Find your font, click on it. It is most likely in a "Sample" format. At the top of the window, click Preview, then Repertoire. Your full list of font & glyphs should come up.
Next, to use them, find the glyph you want, click/highlight it, copy (command c) then go to the program you want to use it in and paste (command v). Voila! It should be there now. 🙂
Dessirae8
Participating Frequently
October 26, 2014
You can find the full set of glyphs in your font via a different way.
I am a Mac user, and this is what I do:
Open Font Book via the Finder
Find your font, click on it. It is most likely in a "Sample" format. At the top of the window, click Preview, then Repertoire. Your full list of font & glyphs should come up.
Next, to use them, find the glyph you want, click/highlight it, copy (command c) then go to the program you want to use it in and paste (command v). Voila! It should be there now. 🙂
Inspiring
October 12, 2014
Glad to add my name to this request: glyphs panel to Photoshop. Illustrator and InDesign have had this. As more designers prepare content for multiple devices it would be a great time saver to have a Glyphs panel available for locating special characters or Open Type alternates.

Would very much make my day to have this feature in Photoshop!
Inspiring
September 4, 2014
How do you guys get to glyphs if you don't have Illustrator? Thanks!
Inspiring
August 25, 2014


I love the new font live preview function, but in order for Photoshop to be able to make full use of pro font sets, we really really need a glyphs panel added, just like the one in InDesign. There are plenty of fonts that have multiple alternate characters, and I often was to specifically select each individual letter. Checking contextual alternatives and other options for OT fonts is a step, but not enough. Even if I have a specific string of characters in InDesign, when I copy them in to Photoshop, my glyph selections are overridden. As it is, the only way for me to make Photoshop display a specific glyph or string of glyphs is for me to type it out in InDesign, convert it to outlines, and then paste the outlines into the Photoshop document as a smart object. This isn't a great solution, because I lose text editing capabilities.

Please add a glyphs panel to Photoshop in a future update!
Inspiring
August 5, 2014
For anyone, who like me, was having issues with Trade Mark, Service Mark, etc, since Adobe hasn't addressed the problem in the 2 years that this thread has been going on, I have a solution.

Print out the character map for the Windows font "ST Media Symbols Regular" and just reference it to the keyboard.

I'll figure out a way to post a spreadsheet I've created that maps several different fonts so we can just change fonts while we continue to wait for an actual solution.
Inspiring
August 5, 2014
Seriously guys, I can unpack a Mac from the late 80's and open up Aldus Pagemaker to get things done with glyphs faster than than I can in a 64 bit version of Photoshop?

I've now got corporate attorneys who will not approve my work because of the failings of the software. Do I need to pull out the drafting table and just throw out your software?
Inspiring
July 19, 2014
Please add a Glyphs palette/panel to Photoshop. I was hoping the newest version would have one and was so disappointed it doesn't. It is a big problem which is causing dissatisfied customers.
Kelly McCathran
Inspiring
July 7, 2014
Thanks for the tip Steve. I still need a Bullets & Numbered list option for a lot of the web/device mock-ups I do.

Although I can make many of these characters into custom shapes, I prefer to use them as real inline text with a Character Style for Superscript... (more like InDesign layout), so I often end up copying and pasting the Glyph from InDesign or Illustrator into Photoshop.