How to Upload a Font File to Indesign

Nearly fonts

A font is a complete ready of characters—messages, numbers, and symbols—that share a common weight, width, and style, such as 10‑pt Adobe Garamond Assuming.

Typefaces (often called type families or font families) are collections of fonts that share an overall advent, and are designed to exist used together, such as Adobe Garamond.

A type fashion is a variant version of an individual font in a font family. Typically, the Roman or Plainly (the actual proper noun varies from family to family) fellow member of a font family unit is the base font, which may include type styles such as regular, bold, semibold, italic, and bold italic.

Font types

Yous 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 yous tin can cull fonts. The post-obit icons are used to indicate different kinds of fonts:

Yous can turn off the preview characteristic or alter the bespeak size of the font names or font samples in Type preferences.

To view the list of fonts bachelor for InDesign, exercise i of the following:

• Go to Character console (Ctrl + T) > Font Family driblet-down
• Go to Control panel > Font Family drib-downward
• Go to Properties panel > Font Family drib-downwardly

Install fonts

For information on installing and activating fonts to be used in all applications, see your system documentation or your font manager documentation.

You tin can make fonts available in InDesign by copying the font files into the Fonts binder inside the InDesign application folder on your hard bulldoze. However, fonts in this Fonts folder are available merely to InDesign.

If 2 or more fonts are active in InDesign and use the same family name but have different Adobe PostScript names, the fonts are bachelor in InDesign. Duplicate fonts are listed in the menus with their font technologies abbreviated in parentheses. For example, a Helvetica TrueType font appears as "Helvetica (TT)," a Helvetica PostScript Type 1 font appears equally "Helvetica (T1)," and a Helvetica OpenType font appears equally "Helvetica (OTF)." If ii fonts accept the same PostScript proper name and one includes .dfont in its name, the other font is used.

Machine-activate missing fonts

When an InDesign document contains whatever missing fonts, they are automatically activated at the groundwork with Adobe Fonts without displaying the Missing Fonts dialog. The missing fonts are replaced with the matching fonts from Adobe Fonts.

When Auto-activate Adobe Fonts is enabled

By default, thisAuto-activate Adobe Fonts is disabled in InDesign. To enable, selectMachine-actuate Adobe Fonts fromEdit >Preferences > File Treatment.

When Auto-activate Adobe Fonts is enabled

If there are missing fonts in your document, so InDesign automatically activates fonts from Adobe Fonts site.

Car-activate Adobe Fonts enabled

The activation process happens at the groundwork.

• If all the missing fonts are available in Adobe Fonts, they are activated at the groundwork. Yous tin can continue to piece of work with documents.
• If only some of the missing fonts are available in Adobe Fonts, they are activated at the background. AMissing Fonts dialog appears with a listing of missing fonts.
  • Click Replace Fonts and get the missing fonts from other sources or
  • Skipthe dialog. The missing fonts will exist replaced with default fonts.
• If none of the missing fonts are bachelor in Adobe Fonts, a Missing Fonts dialog appears with a list of missing fonts.

When none of the missing fonts are available in Adobe Fonts

You can too check the progress of activation of missing fonts in Background Tasks console. To view the background tasks, use one of the below two options:

• Click Window > Utilities > Background Tasks.
• Click the blue spinner icon in the upper-correct corner of InDesign awarding bar.

When Car-activate Adobe Fonts is disabled

When you accept non enabled Auto-activate Adobe Fonts in Preferences dialog, if there are whatsoever missing fonts in your document, a Missing Fonts dialog appears. Click Activate to activate missing fonts manually from Adobe Fonts.

OpenType fonts

OpenType fonts use a single font file for both Windows® and Macintosh® computers, then you lot tin can move files from one platform to another without worrying about font substitution and other issues that cause text to reflow. They may include a number of features, such equally swashes and discretionary ligatures, that aren't available in current PostScript and TrueType fonts.

OpenType fonts brandish the icon.

When working with an OpenType font, you tin automatically substitute alternate glyphs, such as ligatures, modest capitals, fractions, and old way proportional figures, in your text.

Regular (left) and OpenType (correct) fonts

A. OrdinalsB. Discretionary ligaturesC. Swashes

OpenType fonts may include an expanded grapheme set up and layout features to provide richer linguistic back up and avant-garde typographic control. OpenType fonts from Adobe that include support for central European (CE) languages include the discussion "Pro," equally office of the font name in application font menus. OpenType fonts that don't contain key European language support are labeled "Standard," and accept an "Std" suffix. All OpenType fonts can also be installed and used alongside PostScript Type 1 and TrueType fonts.

For more than information on OpenType fonts, encounter www.adobe.com/go/opentype.

Apply OpenType font attributes

Apply OpenType font attributes using Graphic symbol panel or Control panel

Utilise the Character panel or Control panel to apply OpenType font attributes, such as fractions and swashes to text.

For more information on OpenType fonts, run into www.adobe.com/go/opentype.

In the Character panel or Control panel, make sure that an OpenType font is selected.

Cull OpenType from the Grapheme panel carte, and and then select an OpenType aspect, such equally Discretionary Ligatures or Fractions.

Features not supported in the current font appear in brackets, such every bit [Swash].

You tin as well select OpenType font attributes when defining a paragraph or graphic symbol style. Use the OpenType Features section of the Manner Options dialog box.

Utilize the in-context menu to apply the OpenType font attributes applicable to the selected text.

Select text or a text frame.

Select an OpenType attribute, such every bit Ordinals or Fractions, from the popular-upward window. If y'all run into a bluecoat after selecting the text or text frame, click the badge to come across the listing of OpenType attributes.

• The bluecoat to select OpenType attributes does non appear on a threaded text frame.
• The choice to utilize OpenType font attributes using in-context card is non applicative for World-Ready Composers.
  

OpenType font attributes

When you use an OpenType font, you can select specific OpenType features from the Control panel or Character panel bill of fare when formatting text or when defining styles.

OpenType fonts vary greatly in the number of type styles and kinds of features they offering. If an OpenType feature is unavailable, it's surrounded in brackets (such as [Swash]) in the Control panel card.

Discretionary Ligatures

Font designers may include optional ligatures that shouldn't be turned on in all circumstances. Selecting this selection allows these additional optional ligatures to be used, if they are nowadays. For more information on ligatures, see Utilise ligatures to letter pairs.

Fractions

Numbers separated by a slash (such every bit 1/two) are converted to a fraction grapheme, when fractions are available.

Ordinal

Ordinal numbers such every bit 1st and 2nd are formatted with superscript letters (1^st and two^nd) when ordinals are bachelor. Letters such as the superscript a and o in the Spanish words segunda (ii^a) and segundo (ii^o) are besides typeset properly.

Swash

When available, regular and contextual swashes, which may include alternating caps and terminate-of-word alternatives, are provided.

Titling Alternatives

When bachelor, characters used for capital letter titles are activated. In some fonts, selecting this option for text formatted in both capital and lowercase letters can yield undesired furnishings.

Contextual Alternatives

When available, contextual ligatures and connecting alternates are activated. Alternate characters are included in some script typefaces to provide better joining behavior. For example, the letter of the alphabet pair "bl" in the word "bloom" tin be joined so that it looks more similar handwriting. This option is selected past default.

All Small Caps

For fonts that include real small caps, selecting this option turns characters into small caps. For more information, see Change the case of blazon.

Slashed Cypher

Selecting this options displays the number 0 with a diagonal slash through it. In some fonts (especially condensed fonts), it tin can exist difficult to distinguish between the number 0 and the capital letterO.

Stylistic Sets

Some OpenType fonts include alternate glyph sets designed for esthetic effect. A stylistic set is a group of glyph alternates that can be applied ane character at a time or to a range of text. If you select a unlike stylistic set, the glyphs defined in the set are used instead of the font'due south default glyphs. If a glyph graphic symbol in a stylistic set is used in conjunction with another OpenType setting, the glyph from the private setting overrides the character prepare glyph. You lot can run across the glyphs for each gear up using the Glyphs panel.

Positional Forms

In some cursive scripts and in languages such every bit Arabic, what a character looks like can depend on its position within a word. The character may modify form when information technology appears at the start (initial position), eye (medial position), or end (final position) of a give-and-take, and information technology 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 graphic symbol co-ordinate to where the character is located in the give-and-take and whether the character appears in isolation.

Superscript/Superior & Subscript/Junior

Some OpenType fonts include raised or lowered glyphs that are sized correctly relative to the surrounding characters. If an OpenType font doesn't include these glyphs for non-standard fractions, consider using the Numerator and Denominator attributes.

Numerator & Denominator

Some OpenType fonts convert only basic fractions (such as 1/2 or 1/4) to fraction glyphs, non not-standard fractions (such as 4/13 or 99/100). Employ Numerator and Denominator attributes to these not-standard fractions in such cases.

Tabular Lining

Aforementioned widths are provided for total-top figures. This pick is advisable in situations where numbers need to line up from 1 line to the adjacent, as in tables.

Proportional Oldstyle

Varying-peak figures with varying widths are provided. This option is recommended for a classic, sophisticated look in text that doesn't use all caps.

Proportional Lining

Full-summit figures with varying widths are provided. This option is recommended for text that uses all caps.

Tabular Oldstyle

Varying-tiptop figures with fixed, equal widths are provided. This pick is recommended when you want the classic appearance of onetime-mode figures, but you demand them to align in columns, as in an annual report.

Default Figure Style

Figure glyphs utilise the default effigy mode of the current font.

OpenType SVG fonts

InDesign supports OpenType SVG fonts such as colored fonts and emoji fonts. OpenType SVG fonts provide multiple colors and gradients in a single glyph.

OpenType SVG fonts: Multiple colors and gradients

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. OpenType SVG emoji fonts, such equally the EmojiOne font, let you create certain composite glyphs from one or more than other glyphs. For example, y'all can create the flags of countries or change the pare color of certain glyphs depicting people and torso parts such as hands and nose.

Glyphs panel showing EmojiOne SVG font characters

To use OpenType SVG fonts, follow these steps:

Create a text object using the Type tool.


Prepare the font to an OpenType SVG font. These fonts are marked with in the font list.

Select specific glyphs using the Glyphs Panel. To view the Glyphs Panel, select Type > Glyphs. Alternatively, you tin open up the Glyphs panel by selecting Window > Type & Tables > Glyphs.

Create blended glyphs

For the purpose of illustration, let's consider EmojiOne, an OpenType SVG emoji font. You tin can composite several EmojiOne OpenType SVG font characters to create glyphs.

For example, yous can create the flags of countries or modify the pare color of single-person or body part default characters usually colored,, or.

Glyphs in an emoji font, such as the EmojiOne, are distinct from the letters on your keyboard. These glyphs are treated as distinct characters and are available only through the Glyphs Panel rather than the keyboard.

Create flags of countries

The "letters" (A, B, C, D, and so on) in EmojiOne do not correspond to the corresponding keys on the keyboard. When y'all combine these characters in the Glyphs Panel to brand up a country's ISO code, the 2 characters form the flag of that country. For example, US gives the American flag, GB gives the British flag, AR gives the Argentine flag, and IN gives the Indian flag.

Combine glyphs to form the flags of countries

Create character variants

Combine unmarried-person default characters; ordinarily colored,, or; or body parts with whatever of the available skin colors. The original default character is recolored to match the selected skin color. Such composites currently practise not more often than not piece of work with glyphs having more than than i person.

Pare-colored characters

Combine unmarried-person characters with peel colors

Notes:

• The single-person characters or torso parts emojis tin can be matched with whatever of the skin colored characters simply once.
• Blended glyphs are a font characteristic. Non all OpenType SVG fonts let you combine characters to create blended glyphs.
• You tin can decompose some EmojiOne composites into their elective characters.

Variable fonts

InDesign supportsVariable fonts, which is a new OpenType font format that supports custom attributes, such as weight, width, camber, optical size, etc. You tin modify these custom attributes using convenient slider controls available when you click in the Command panel, Grapheme panel, Properties panel, Grapheme Styles console, and Paragraph Styles panel.

To locate variable fonts, await for the icon next to the font proper noun.

Access variable fonts in Character panel

Add variable fonts to character styles

Automatically map Optical Size to Font Size in Variable Fonts

You can automatically match Optical Size to the Font Size for Variable fonts.

Admission optical size mapping

Enable or disable optical size mapping in Preference > Type

To select the Map Optical Size to the Font Size value in Variable Fonts option, do the following:

• In macOS: Go to InDesign > Preferences > Type.
• In Windows: Get to Edit > Preferences > Type.

 When the option is selected, the optical size changes with the font size, and if not selected, the optical size is non affected by the change in the font size.

Friction match Optical Size to Font Size.

For the Variable fonts such as Minion Variable Concept, use the slider controls to adjust weight and optical size, and more.

Live font preview

Yous can select a text in your document to preview the fonts in real time. To meet the preview of a selected text , hover the pointer over a font proper name in the font list available in the Control panel, Graphic symbol panel, or Properties console.

Live preview of font style

To preview the font style in existent time, expand the font family from the font bill of fare and hover the arrow over the font style.

To plow off the preview options, practise the post-obit:

• Choose Edit > Preferences.
• In the Type Preferences, deselect the Enable in-menu font previews option.

To modify the font size of the selected or the sample text and view the preview in existent fourth dimension, click the Show smaller sample text size, Show default sample text size, and Show larger sample text size.

Organize, search, and filter fonts

Rapidly find the fonts that you lot utilize frequently by starring individual font families every bit favorites or selecting from recently used fonts that appear on tiptop of the font list. Recently used and starred fonts are preserved beyond InDesign sessions.

A. Recently used fontsB. Star fonts equally favorites

While searching for fonts, you tin can narrow down the results past filtering fonts by classification, such as Serif, Sans Serif, and Handwritten. Further, y'all can choose to search amidst fonts installed on your figurer or activated fonts from Adobe Fonts.

You can besides search for fonts based on visual similarity (). Fonts closest in visual appearance to the font yous're searching for appear on top of the search results. A condition strip in the font card displays the data well-nigh the applied filters.

A. Bear witness Fonts By ClassificationB. Show Favorite FontsC. Prove Recently AddedD. Show Activated Fonts

Show Fonts By Classification

Filter the font list by classification, such every bit Serif, Script, and Handwritten.

Show Favorite Fonts

Evidence merely starred fonts marked earlier as favorites.

Bear witness Recently Added

Prove fonts recently added to the font list.

Show Activated Fonts

Brandish only activated fonts from Adobe Fonts in the font listing.

Actuate more than fonts

You can browse thousands of fonts from hundreds of type foundries from within InDesign, activate them instantly, and utilize them in your certificate. Activated fonts are bachelor for use in all Artistic Cloud applications.

In the Character panel, click the Find More tab.


Browse the font list and select the font yous desire.

Annotation: To preview a font in real time on the selected text, hover over the font name.


Click the Activate icon displayed next to the font. The Activate icon shows a check marker  subsequently the font is activated and available for use.



A. Activated fonts filterB. Activate font iconC. Deactivate font iconD. Activation in-progress icon

For more information virtually Adobe Fonts, visit fonts.adobe.com.

Preview Japanese fonts

In the Find More tab, y'all can also browse and preview all Japanese fonts that are available on fonts.adobe.com. To set the preference to enable the preview Japanese fonts, do the post-obit:

Cull Edit > Preferences > Type.

Select Enable Japanese Font Preview in 'Observe More'.

The changes are practical only when you relaunch InDesign.

Apply a font to text

When you specify a font, you can select the font family and its type style independently. When yous alter from one font family to another, InDesign attempts to match the current style with the 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 mode to blazon, InDesign applies the typeface style specified past the font. In most cases, the specific version of bold or italic is practical as expected. However, some fonts may apply a bold or italic variation that isn't exactly labeled bold or italic, respectively. For instance, some font designers specify that when you apply bold to a font, the semibold variation is applied.

Select the text you want to change.

• In the Character panel, Control panel, or Properties panel, select a font in the Font Family unit menu or a style in the Blazon Way card. (In Mac Os, you tin select type styles in the Font Family submenus.)

• In the Character panel, Control panel, or Properties panel, click in front of the font family name or type style name (or double-click its first word) and type in the first few characters of the name you lot want. As y'all type, InDesign displays font family or type style names that match the characters you've typed.

• Choose a font in the Type> Font card. Annotation that you choose both a font family and a type way when y'all utilise this menu.

Specify a typeface size

By default, typeface size is measured in points (a point equals 1/72 of an inch). Yous tin can specify whatever typeface size from 0.1 to 1296 points, in 0.001‑point increments.

In Fireworks, the typeface size is measured in pixels by default.

Select the characters or type objects y'all desire to change. If y'all don't select any text, the typeface size applies to new text yous create.

• In the Graphic symbol panel or Control bar set the Font Size option.

• Choose a size from the Type> Size menu. Choosing Other lets you type a new size in the Character panel.

You tin can change the unit of measurement for type in the Preferences dialog box. This pick is not available in Fireworks.

Work with missing fonts

If you lot select text that uses a missing font, the Character panel or Control panel indicates that this font is missing by displaying it in brackets in the font mode popular‑up card.

InDesign auto-activates missing fonts in your document with an available Adobe Font. If there are whatsoever missing fonts that practice not have suitable fonts in Adobe Fonts, they volition exist substituted with default fonts. When this happens, you can select the text and use any other available font. Missing fonts for which others take been substituted volition appear at the peak of the Type > Font menu in a section marked Missing Fonts. By default, text formatted with missing fonts appears in pink highlighting.

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.

Yous tin choose Blazon> Find Font to find and change missing fonts. If a missing font is part of a style, you can update the font in that style by changing its way definition.

InDesign's missing fonts dialog displays whether Adobe Fonts service is enabled in the Creative Cloud application. If it is disabled, you also have an option on the Missing fonts dialog itself to enable Adobe Fonts.

Brand missing fonts available

• Activate missing fonts from Adobe Fonts service. For more data, see Add fonts from the Adobe Fonts service.
• Install the missing fonts on your system.
• Identify the missing fonts in the Fonts binder, which is located in the InDesign application folder. Fonts in this folder are available just to InDesign. See Installing fonts.
• Activate the missing fonts using a font-direction application.

Highlight substituted fonts in your document

If the Substituted Fonts preferences pick is selected, text formatted with missing fonts appears in pink highlighting and then that you lot tin can hands identify text formatted with a missing font.

Choose Edit> Preferences> Composition (Windows®) or InDesign> Preferences> Composition (Mac OS®).

Select Substituted Fonts, and and so clickOK.

Document installed fonts

Fonts in a Document Fonts folder that is in the same location equally 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 dissimilar computer. (Earlier sharing whatever document fonts, ensure the font software license allows it.) Fonts activated from Adobe Fonts are not copied past the Package command.

Fonts in the Document Fonts binder are not the same as fonts available from the standard operating arrangement font locations. They are installed when the document is opened and supersede any font of the same PostScript name. Notwithstanding, they supervene upon only fonts within the document. Fonts installed by i document are not available to other documents. When you shut the document, the fonts that were installed for the document are uninstalled. Document installed fonts are listed in a submenu of the Font carte.

Some Type1 fonts are not bachelor in the document. In add-on, Mac Bone fonts are not available when running InDesign in Windows.

For a video on using document installed fonts, see Sharing files with easy access to the document fonts (video).

Multiple chief fonts

Multiplemaster fonts are customizable Blazon ane fonts whose typeface characteristics are described in terms of variable design axes, such equally weight, width, way, and optical size.

Some multiple master fonts include an optical size centrality, which lets y'all utilise a font specifically designed for optimal readability at a particular size. Mostly, the optical size for a smaller font, such every bit 10 bespeak, is designed with heavier serifs and stems, wider characters, less contrast between thick and sparse lines, taller x height, and looser spacing between letters than the optical size for a larger font, such equally 72 indicate.

Choose Edit> Preferences> Type (Windows) or InDesign> Preferences> Type (Mac OS).

Select Automatically Use Correct Optical Size, and clickOK.

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