P: Add a Glyphs panel

[Garconis]

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.

[AnnShelbourne]

I only had PostScripts (in two parts!) — Mac version — back in 1996 and i was using them on a whacking great Varityper Phototypesetting machine before that!

And it didn't have a Glyphs panel either!

:(

I know: Walk to school; in the snow; uphill each way; and without shoes?!

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

What does communication have to do with implementing a glyphs palette? The applications can't share much code.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

That's ok, some of us went to the same school and lived in that same hill/valley.

[adamtwar]

Former iterations of the Illustrator glyph palette were just a straight table of all the glyphs in the currently active font, ordered by their glyph ID. Recent versions of Illustrator introduced sorting oprions and the ability to show related glyphs in a small sub-popup.

The latter functionality is neat but even just a simple palette withou oprions would do. Note that it's important that — like InDesign and Illustrator — the palette should dosplay all of a font's glyphs, not just the encoded characters. Many OpenType fonts include alternate glyphs rhat don't have a Unicode.

Since it's already posdible to use the glyphs pallette in Illustrator to enter such glyphs, then copy-paste them to Photoshop and they are being retained, it's evident that Photoshop can deal with unencoded glyphs already, it's just a matter of exposing them in the UI.

Miguel Sousa or David Lemon of the Adobe Type Department can provide you with insights as to how the details can be implemented.

[AnnShelbourne]

But weren't you the guy who had shoes?

;)

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

We've been talking to the type department - which is why we know it's not as obvious as it seems. If we're going to do it, we need to make sure we do it right.

[AnnShelbourne]

Personally, I find the InDesign CS5 Glyphs Panel to have been exceptionally well done.

Even if you can't create something quite as comprehensive as that for Photoshop, just a more basic panel (with less ways of choosing listings) would help — even if it only showed all of the alternate glyphs that were available in a font for a selected character.

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Long time no read, Ann!

[PECourtejoie]

For your info, CS6's character panel has more OpenType options: ligatures, fractions... But I understand the fact that it might be frustrating to see options in one program of the Suite, and not in the other.

[JonasRogne]

I would like it like the InDesign Glyph Panel (slightly better than the one in Illustrator imo.).

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

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.)

[MiguelSousa]

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]

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.

[Mathias17]

For a long time I've also wanted a Glyphs Panel in Photoshop. It would be a most welcome addition.

[Mathias17]

Either Illy's or Indesign's glyph access solution brought to Photoshop would cause waves of happiness to wash over me.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

"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.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

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.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

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.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Where is the Glyphs pallette? We need this desperately Adobe...

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Is this feature being worked on? How close is it to arriving in CC now that Adobe apps are being rapidly updated?

[Rene Andritsch]

Dear Photoshop team,

just today again wonderful features were added to PS but I always wondered why a Glyphs Panel has not found its way into PS so far. As working with type is as essential as working with images in Photoshop this feature is badly needed.

The workaround via Illustrator is just not what a fluid workflow should be like.

And I think this would make a lot of people – including myself – really happy.

Thank you!

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

I cannot even use names that properly have accents like Zoe or Renee! Come on.

[Max Luczynski]

Celebrating this feature request's third year. Yaaay!

[lorie_wa]

Please add the glyphs panel to Photoshop... it is seriously necessary especially if one cannot spend the $50/mo for the full suite so that you can have Illustrator or InDesign available to utilize a pro font...

Please listen to your customers...

[Thomas Phinney]

I know that as a hard-core font geek, I am too weird for my opinion to count, but I will just say that this has been my #1 feature request for Photoshop for a decade now.

The best workaround is to set your text in Illustrator and paste it in, but that is a major workflow interruption. I mean, I shouldn't have to launch and use Illustrator just to get the glyphs I need.