fractions to look right

• Type > Find/Replace Font
• Select the font name being used for the fractions in the list at the top
• Click the More Info button (once clicked, it shows Less Info) to see the font information

~Barb

If you're using OpenType fonts, you can use its specialized functions to make typographically correct fractions, like I'll show in the exercise below.

First, choose an OpenType font. For the illustration below I used the default Minion Pro font installed with InDesign.

Then, type out your desired fractional value. In my illustration below, I typed the fraction value 37/64. Highlight the type.

Now, go to your Control Panel above your document window. At the far right is a button with three horizontal lines. That's generally known as the Hamburger Menu, or specifically for InDesign the Flyaway Menu. Click on it, and select the OpenType>Fractions sub-menu command, as shown at right.

Once you apply the OpenType>Fractions command, using an OpenType font, you can make any fraction you want look like the example shown below:

If you're really picky, you can apply custom kerning on both sides of the fractional slash and  between the 3 and 7 to make this precisely, typographically, excellent. But for text purposes, it's probably fine as it is.

Hope this helps,

Randy

I don't have third options in the glyphs.