Photoshop Fonts

[Dylan356713942ajf]

Can someone tell me how to make a cursive font have identical "tails" in the beginning and end of the words in photoshop, please? I will provide an example.

[Conrad_C]

These are the steps in the demo below: 

1. Use a font that has lots of alternate characters, especially ornaments. If you are not sure if a font has alternates, look in the Glyphs panel. Cheap or free fonts might not include ornaments. You will probably find ornaments in high quality script fonts; the one I used is from Adobe Fonts which is included with your Creative Cloud subscription.

2. Add appropriate ornaments as the first and last character. If there are gaps between characters, reduce the Kerning value to close up the gaps. In my example you can see that the end ornament fit perfectly right away with no adjustment needed, but the start ornament needed a slight reduction in kerning.

If you do not like any of the ornaments, or if none are available for the font you want to use, you can always draw them yourself with a Pen tool. Or, you can select the type layer, choose Type > Convert to Shape, and use path editing tools to customize the character shapes in any way you like. Those steps are not shown.

[Dylan356713942ajf]

Thank you so much! I really appreciate it!

[Trevor.Dennis]

I like that Conrad.  Much better than messing around with shapes

[Trevor.Dennis]

I can't think of any easy ways.  You can convert the text layer to a Shape layer, and edit its points.  If you do one end and select and copy the added points, you can copy (Ctrl c) Paste to a new work path so you can transform them.  The select and paste back to the original shape layer.  Probably not a task for beginners, but it wouldn't take long if you are OK with the pen tool.

[Dylan356713942ajf]

Thank you for your help!

[asx35672424ctst]

Amazing one