How do I access the swooshy characters in this font set?

May 4, 2018 3:50 AM

This font has lowercase and uppercase letters but also has caps with swooshy tails. I feel decidedly stupid, but no keyboard combination produces swooshes for me. Can someone please unstupid me?
posted by DarlingBri to Computers & Internet (8 answers total)

What software are you using them in? In Photoshop there’s a menu (whose name I am failing to remember, but it’s probably ‘fonts’ or ‘characters’) that will give you access to alternates.
posted by okayokayigive at 3:55 AM on May 4, 2018

Best answer: Are you sure this font actually includes the swooshy characters? The unicode graph doesn't have them displayed, and I just installed the font on my computer (windows machine) and have it open in the character map, which is under windows accessories and I'm not seeing them there, either. It's not totally uncommon for the ligatures and decorative elements of a font to be stripped for a free version - are there coordinating fonts available as separate files maybe?
posted by Mizu at 4:01 AM on May 4, 2018

Response by poster: Oh my God I think this font lied to me!

It's not totally uncommon for the ligatures and decorative elements of a font to be stripped for a free version

Well that's a tragedy. The commercial version was on Creative Market but is no longer there. I can't buy it anywhere.

Are you sure this font actually includes the swooshy characters?

No I'm not :( The font alts drop down is greyed out so I guess okayokayokay is right and they're not in there.
posted by DarlingBri at 4:07 AM on May 4, 2018

Here's a video tutorial for accessing the special swash glyphs in Photoshop – but I assume this is what you've been doing and if they're not there, they're not present in the font, unfortunately. With web fonts you can access these glyphs through the font-feature-settings CSS property.
posted by snarfois at 4:19 AM on May 4, 2018

I believe that this is the designer's website. You could try contacting her directly to see if you can buy a copy of the extended/commercial font.
posted by belladonna at 5:07 AM on May 4, 2018

Response by poster: Thanks so much you guys; I've downloaded an alternative with ligature glyphs and I am swooshing away!
posted by DarlingBri at 5:08 AM on May 4, 2018 [1 favorite]

Just in case you'd interested or someone else is, I think this is the official place to get the paid version now, since it was linked off the designer's Behance.
posted by Sequence at 9:17 AM on May 4, 2018 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: Oh thanks, I'm glad it can still be purchased. I ended up downloading and am now very happily using a similar font, Indah, which includes all the swooshy and is currently free for personal and commercial use.
posted by DarlingBri at 5:47 PM on May 4, 2018 [2 favorites]