Can I add a custom glyph to InDesign?

[brooke_williams8337]

I want to add this symbol "☾" but it only appears as a square in the InDesign file. And the app doesn't have that symbol in the option. Can I add it as a new glyph or am I stuck with the only ones they have? :") Also, the unicode for that symbol is "U+263E" 

Thank you in advance!

[Laubender · Accepted solution]

Hi @brooke_williams8337 ,

you could create a single-glyph font out of this with Marc Autret's InDesign script IndyFont:

https://indiscripts.com/category/projects/IndyFont

As I can see the demo version still can do a one-glyph OTF font.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )

[Joel Cherney · Accepted solution]

The typical way to do that would be to find a font that has that glyph and install it on your computer. You might already have a font installed that has that symbol, but there's no way to ask InDesign to show you only fonts that have that symbol. When you're looking in the Glyphs menu, there's a Font dropdown at the bottom of the panel. You'd need to pick a font that actually has that glyph to insert it. If you don't already have a font installed with your quarter-moon glyph, you could go and download a font like Noto Sans Symbols, which has that glyph. 

(It's easy to use macOS font tools to find out which installed fonts have a particular glyph; I have no idea how to do so in contemporary Windows versions, because I use an ancient app when I need to figure out which font has the glyph I'm looking for.)