Find a font that has specific glyph

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April 26, 2026
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A long time ago I had a tab open that explained how to find a font that contained a specific glyph, but it’s been lost to too many updates. Who knows how to use InDesign to find a font that has a specific (semi-obscure, an asterism) glyph?

Correct answer Manan Joshi

@detritus books ok, in that case you can do a trick. Paste the glyph in a textframe and select it. Then open up the font dropdown from the toolbar. Every font entry should show the character preview if it is supported by that font. You can quickly scan the whole font list visually to find all the fonts that support and don’t support the selected glyph

David W. Goodrich

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I've had problems logging in to add comments, and when I tried a month ago the post was declined. What I wrote then was "Andrew West’s splendid BabelMap, where the Fonts/Font Coverage tool can list any installed fonts containing a specific code point or all the chars. in a pasted-in text snippet."

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detritus booksAuthor

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Ooh, how do I get this tool???

Joel Cherney

Community Expert

Hi, David, nice to see you around here again!

@detritus books , you might not have seen my response as it’s buried under the “more replies” link, but you can get BabelMap from Andrew’s site:https://babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelMap.html .