: How to use alternative numerals in a font? There are two ways of laying out numerals in a font: lining figures and text or oldstyle figures. The Former has the height of a capital letter

@Merenda852

Customize your font! If the conditions are right, it's actually pretty easy.

I just had a case where I needed to use the lining figures of a font for a Web project. However, OpenType features aren't 100% reliable yet. Also, the webfont service that was hosting the font I was trying to use created a subset that excluded the lining figures anyways, so I had to look for another solution.

Enter Font Squirrel's Webfont Generator. Go into the expert settings and look for the "OpenType Flattening" section:



Check "Lining Numerals", and then download your font! You'll get a customized font file that will default to lining numerals instead of old style numerals, so you can use it in any program you'd like!

As FontSquirrel notes, make sure that you're respecting your font's license. Redistribution of your updated font is also something you'd want to look into. Didn't check, but this might not work for Corbel. I am not a lawyer and such.

If you like pain, it's also possible to edit font files in FontForge manually.

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@Eichhorn212

For word, you can change the Corbel typeface to lining figures or old style figure by clicking the flyout menu in the font area of Word's navigation. Then click on the Advanced tab and use the drop down menu beside Number Forms. You can adjust ligatures and all sorts here too! It works for Outlook and Publisher too apparently.



Source: www.howtogeek.com/howto/13484/use-advanced-font-ligatures-in-office-2010/

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@Megan533

Those are typically accessed through the Glyphs panel in Adobe applications, usually under Type > Glyphs. This shows all characters in the font file, allowing you to pick and choose. Double click a character to insert it at your text cursor's current location. You can even click and hold a character in the palette when it has a small triangle in the lower right hand corner, to see all alternatives the font offers for that character.



In InDesign, the Glyphs panel has a default shortkey: Shift+Alt+F11. In Illustrator, drop the Alt key. In Phothshop, it's conspicuously absent—at least in my CS6 version.

In other apps, I'd be looking for the insert character or insert symbol functions, or something similar.

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