1 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:10,040 Okay. Have you ever seen some fonts, 2 00:00:10,040 --> 00:00:12,540 and you're like, how did they make it look so pretty? 3 00:00:12,540 --> 00:00:14,160 You can see that's the one we've worked in, 4 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:15,500 in the last example. 5 00:00:15,495 --> 00:00:19,525 These little extra fonts are called ligatures and the part of the font but hidden away. 6 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:22,260 You can see this one here like this y. That's the default y. 7 00:00:22,255 --> 00:00:26,105 But look at all the varieties of Y's you get to pick from saying for this ampersand 8 00:00:26,100 --> 00:00:28,500 here all sorts of different versions to help 9 00:00:28,500 --> 00:00:31,050 you pick the one that's perfect for your situation. 10 00:00:31,050 --> 00:00:35,490 So let's go and do that and look at something called ligatures. 11 00:00:35,485 --> 00:00:38,705 Ligatures, although they're different from glyphs, 12 00:00:38,700 --> 00:00:40,490 they are actually found in the exact same place, 13 00:00:40,490 --> 00:00:43,960 so let's zoom in on healing herbs. 14 00:00:43,955 --> 00:00:47,375 What we want to do is we want to see if there's 15 00:00:47,370 --> 00:00:51,090 any more special H's say with this H is nice, 16 00:00:51,090 --> 00:00:53,400 but we want to fancy it up a little bit. 17 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:56,090 With it selected go to Type and go to Glyphs. 18 00:00:56,085 --> 00:00:59,135 What will happen is if you've got a letter selected, you can see in here, 19 00:00:59,135 --> 00:01:01,225 it's giving you other options for 20 00:01:01,220 --> 00:01:04,410 that H. I'm going to make them a lot bigger so we can see. 21 00:01:04,405 --> 00:01:08,685 This one here, you can see there's three versions of it. 22 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:09,950 So there's this version. 23 00:01:09,950 --> 00:01:12,820 Then I click on this version and you're going to double-click on it. 24 00:01:12,815 --> 00:01:16,075 You see it replaced it with a sushi fancy version. 25 00:01:16,070 --> 00:01:17,230 Do I like it more? 26 00:01:17,225 --> 00:01:18,535 What's the difference between these two? 27 00:01:18,530 --> 00:01:20,060 I can't see the difference, 28 00:01:20,060 --> 00:01:21,160 held in this one. 29 00:01:21,155 --> 00:01:23,035 There is only actually two options. 30 00:01:23,030 --> 00:01:25,760 So a fancy that this one maybe this S, 31 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:26,800 is there anything for the S? 32 00:01:26,795 --> 00:01:28,205 You highlight them and you hope for the best. 33 00:01:28,205 --> 00:01:30,965 This one here has a slightly different version. 34 00:01:30,960 --> 00:01:35,120 This one here you can see a spiky version. 35 00:01:35,115 --> 00:01:40,625 Now there'll be some litters that adjust more prone to having sushi extra bits. 36 00:01:40,620 --> 00:01:42,050 You can start to see down here, 37 00:01:42,050 --> 00:01:43,120 let's have a look in, 38 00:01:43,115 --> 00:01:47,295 I'm going to make a new text box just for an example. 39 00:01:47,295 --> 00:01:49,585 I'm going to type in Y and a lowercase y, 40 00:01:49,580 --> 00:01:51,410 and you'll see if a highlight y, 41 00:01:51,410 --> 00:01:52,850 it has this version. 42 00:01:52,850 --> 00:01:54,880 I can just double-clicking it just to see. 43 00:01:54,875 --> 00:02:01,745 But you can see y in this case there has so many versions because it ends lots of words. 44 00:02:02,090 --> 00:02:06,710 It's got a nice shape to do these types of flourishes and they are called ligatures, 45 00:02:06,710 --> 00:02:09,500 just somebody designs the font and then go through and goes, 46 00:02:09,500 --> 00:02:11,400 "What about if it was like this and like this?", 47 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:14,660 and allows you to do some extra bits and pieces. 48 00:02:14,660 --> 00:02:15,840 I find x quite useful. 49 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:19,460 I don't know why, but ampersand is one of those latest that you end up using quite a lot. 50 00:02:19,460 --> 00:02:22,280 So ampersand is that, the end. 51 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:26,100 But you'll notice in here there's some really cool ampersands. 52 00:02:26,300 --> 00:02:30,460 There's that one, double click it. There's that one. 53 00:02:30,455 --> 00:02:32,125 Double click it, that one then, 54 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:35,120 the same font but a very different look and feels for them. 55 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:37,550 So if you're doing an invite and I feel like I've done 56 00:02:37,550 --> 00:02:40,400 about a zillion wedding invites in my design career and it's 57 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:44,180 always like Dan and Katie's invite you to their weeding and it's always 58 00:02:44,180 --> 00:02:46,490 the ampersand you spend the most time on because it's doing 59 00:02:46,490 --> 00:02:49,370 you a big ingredient for the design. 60 00:02:49,370 --> 00:02:50,830 If you look in here though, 61 00:02:50,825 --> 00:02:54,265 and let's say we pick a font that isn't as exciting. 62 00:02:54,260 --> 00:02:56,550 So I'm going to copy and paste this one. 63 00:02:56,660 --> 00:02:59,290 I'm going to go this and I'm going to pick, 64 00:02:59,285 --> 00:03:02,105 say your company uses Times New Roman. 65 00:03:02,105 --> 00:03:05,035 I'm going to pick Times Regular, and healing herbs, 66 00:03:05,030 --> 00:03:09,240 I'm going to highlight the H and there's no ligatures. 67 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:10,630 So you might just find that, 68 00:03:10,625 --> 00:03:12,145 especially if it's a free font, 69 00:03:12,140 --> 00:03:13,930 there's going to be no ligatures. 70 00:03:13,925 --> 00:03:15,835 If it's just our real plain font, 71 00:03:15,830 --> 00:03:19,580 they haven't gone through and done a sushi looking H. All right, 72 00:03:19,580 --> 00:03:22,480 my friends that is looking at ligatures. 73 00:03:22,475 --> 00:03:26,755 I'm going to go through and tidy this up and you can skip on to the next one. 74 00:03:26,750 --> 00:03:28,060 So we need you. 75 00:03:28,055 --> 00:03:30,965 I don't really like the little Whately, do I like it? 76 00:03:30,965 --> 00:03:35,775 I'm not sure. But let's go onto the next video anyway. I'll see you over there.