I have fonts that use glyphs for kerning pairs or special “accents” before a letter or after a letter. It’s time consuming to select each one then click on glyphs then scroll down to the ones with the “special characters”. Also, it’s very time consuming to click one special character, copy it to Adobe Illustrator, then go back and search through the glyphs to see if a particular kerning pair is available or not then copy it, if it’s available, then copy to Adobe Illustrator, then check for the next one, until the word is done.
I’ve provided an example of what I’m talking about, though I’m sure that the UI could be improved.
This is a great suggestion actually. We will consider implementing it when we will redesign our family page (soon). I will move this to the Greenlight category.
Could I also ask that you allow me to make the glyphs bigger or show a bigger version when you cursor over it (or other method?)? Some of these very fine lined fonts appear “gray” to me, despite the fact that the letter color is indeed black. My eyes are old and I am using a 32" monitor!
Could it be possible in future to also show the number of glyphs? With some duplicates I find quicker the better font (language support - more glyphs) to clean my font archive or select simple the better one.
In the meantime, I would recommend activating the fonts you are likely to use/are using.
Then go to Illustrator > Window > Type > Glyphs
This will open the Glyph panel in illustrator, you can start a new text object or click on an existing text object (must be same font you intend to use) and type it out by double clicking on the glyphs you want to type out.
Do you think a Glyph view would be doable in the near future to aid in comparing fonts that are primarily glyphs and show up as Boxes with X in Grid and List view?
