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Garconis
Known Participant
March 30, 2011
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P: Add a Glyphs panel

  • March 30, 2011
  • 125 replies
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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

Inspiring
December 8, 2013
Is this feature being worked on? How close is it to arriving in CC now that Adobe apps are being rapidly updated?
Inspiring
December 8, 2013
Where is the Glyphs pallette? We need this desperately Adobe...
Inspiring
October 19, 2013
I was actually shocked and appalled to find no glyph panel in Photoshop. What's the point of spending 300 dollars on a font to not be able to use it's incredible glyphs and alternates?

Please adobe, add the glyphs panel into your product.
Inspiring
June 21, 2013
I've just been futzing with trying to find a dingbat for 20 minutes - it's so infuriating in Photoshop CS6, and so simple in Illustrator.

Please please please get this on the roadmap for the next version of photoshop.
Inspiring
February 18, 2013
"I definitely encourage the Photoshop team to add the Glyph palette."

I agree. It's really sad and not helpful at all for me that there is neither a glyph panel in Photoshop CS6 nor in Fireworks CS 5. I use both programs for webdesign and there are a lot of good fonts which have excellent glyphs very suitable for webdesign.

This problem has further intensified since Apple has removed the glyph panel form its MAC OSX (they get worse in Typography with every new release. Since Mountain Lion not even the Small Caps in Opentype fonts can be activated, the function is totally non-functional - seriously bugged).

I tried so many solutions Ultra Character Map, copy and paste from FontExplorer but all of them don't offer a solution.
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Inspiring
October 13, 2012
Either Illy's or Indesign's glyph access solution brought to Photoshop would cause waves of happiness to wash over me.
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Inspiring
October 13, 2012
For a long time I've also wanted a Glyphs Panel in Photoshop. It would be a most welcome addition.
MiguelSousa
Participating Frequently
July 9, 2012
You need to understand the difference between a character and a glyph. OS X's Character View allows you to access all characters in a font, but that doesn't mean that you'll be able to access all the glyphs in that font. In other words, the Character View can only access glyphs that are encoded.
MiguelSousa
Participating Frequently
July 9, 2012
You need to understand the difference between a character and a glyph. OS X's Character View allows you to access all characters in a font, but that doesn't mean that you'll be able to access all the glyphs in that font. In other words, the Character View can only access glyphs that are encoded.
Inspiring
July 2, 2012
I'm kinda spoiled here since I work with a Mac, so I don't understand this pain... The language preferences allows me to use a "character viewer" which means I can find glyphs rapidly and by different fonts. (I'm thanking the late Mr. Jobs for being a typophile for this.) (UTF characters are also much easier to type on a mac.)