Typefaces often called type families or font families are collections of fonts that share an overall appearance, and are designed to be used together, such as Adobe Garamond. A type style is a variant version of an individual fonts in use in a font family. Typically, the Roman or Plain the actual name varies from family to family member of a font family is the base font, which may include type styles such as regular, bold, semibold, italic, and bold italic. You can view samples of a font in the font family and font style menus in the Character panel and other areas in the application from where you can choose fonts. You can make fonts available in InDesign by copying the font files into the Fonts folder inside the InDesign application folder on your hard drive. However, fonts in this Fonts folder are available only to InDesign. If two or more fonts are active in InDesign and use the same family name but have different Adobe PostScript names, the fonts are available in InDesign. Duplicate fonts are listed in the menus with their font technologies abbreviated in parentheses. OpenType fonts use a single font file for both Windows® and Macintosh® computers, so you can move files from one platform to another without worrying about font fonts in use and other problems that cause text to reflow. OpenType fonts may include an expanded character set and layout features to provide richer linguistic support and advanced typographic control. All OpenType fonts can also be installed and fonts in use alongside PostScript Type 1 and TrueType fonts. For more information on OpenType fonts, see. When available, contextual ligatures and connecting alternates are activated. Alternate characters are included in some script typefaces to provide better joining behavior. This option is selected by default. Some OpenType fonts include alternate glyph sets designed for esthetic effect. A stylistic set is a group of glyph alternates that can be applied one character at a time or to a range of text. If a glyph character in a stylistic set is used in conjunction with another OpenType setting, the glyph from the individual setting overrides the character set glyph. You can see the glyphs for each set using the Glyphs panel. In some cursive scripts and in languages such as Arabic, what a character looks like can depend on its position inside a word. The character may change form when it appears at the start initial positionmiddle medial positionor end final position of a word, and it may change form as well when it appears alone isolated position. Select a character and choose a Positional Forms option to format it correctly. The General Form option inserts the common character; the Automatic Form option inserts a form of the character according to where the character is located in the word and whether the character appears in isolation. Using Emoji fonts, you can include various colorful and graphical characters, such as smileys, flags, street signs, animals, people, food, and landmarks in your documents. For example, you can create the flags of countries or change the skin color of certain glyphs depicting people and body parts such as hands and nose. For example, you can create the flags of countries or change the skin color of single-person or body part default characters usually colored, or. While searching for fonts, you can narrow down the results by filtering fonts by classification, such as Serif, Sans Serif, and Handwritten. Further, you can choose to search among fonts installed on your computer or activated fonts from Adobe Fonts. You can also search for fonts based on visual similarity. Fonts closest in visual appearance to the font you're searching for appear on top of the search results. A status strip in the font menu displays the information about the applied filters. When you specify a font, you can select the font family and its type style independently. When you change from one font family to another, InDesign attempts to match the current style with fonts in use style available in the new font family. For example, Arial Bold would change to Times Bold when you change from Arial to Times. When you apply a bold or italic fonts in use to type, InDesign applies the typeface style specified by the font. In most cases, the specific version of bold or italic is applied as expected. For example, some font designers specify that when you apply bold to a font, the semibold variation is applied. Note that you choose both a font family and a type style when you use this menu. When you open or place documents that include fonts not installed on your system, an alert message appears, indicating which fonts are missing. InDesign substitutes missing fonts with an available font. When this happens, you can select the text and apply any other available font. If a TrueType font is installed and the document contains a Type 1 T1 version of the same font, the font is displayed as missing. If a missing font is part of a style, you can update the font in that style by changing its style definition. If it is disabled, you also have an option on the Missing fonts dialog itself to enable Adobe Fonts. Fonts in this folder are available only to InDesign. Fonts in a Document Fonts folder that is in the same location as an InDesign document are temporarily installed when the document is opened. The Package command can generate a Document Fonts folder when you want to share your document or move it to a different computer. Before sharing any document fonts, ensure the font software license allows it. Fonts activated from Adobe Fonts are not copied by the Package command. Fonts in the Document Fonts folder are not the same as fonts available from the standard operating system font locations. They are installed when the document is opened and supersede any font of the same PostScript name. However, they supersede only fonts within the document. fonts in use Fonts installed by one document are not available to other documents. When you close the document, the fonts that were installed for the document are uninstalled. Document installed fonts are listed in a submenu of the Font menu. Some Type1 fonts are not available in the document. For a video on using document installed fonts, see video. Multiple master fonts are customizable Type 1 fonts whose typeface characteristics are described in terms of variable design axes, such as weight, width, style, and optical size. Some multiple master fonts include an optical size axis, which lets you use a font specifically designed for optimal readability at a particular size. Generally, the optical size for a smaller font, such as 10 point, is designed with heavier serifs and stems, wider characters, less contrast between thick and thin lines, taller x height, and looser spacing between letters than the optical size for a larger font, such as 72 point.
