So you have to search through here until you find it and it's usually about here for the fonts that have a lot of alternates and you can see here there's a one fourth, one half and three quarters.
And what that's going to do is show you all of the alternate characters that exist for that font that you're using. So what you do is just type what you want, highlight that fraction - that 1 slash 2, go up to Type > Glyphs. You would type out "Use 1 and 1 slash 2 cups of flour." And that's great, but it looks like 11 slash 2 - we want to make it look cute like a little fraction with a higher 1 and a lower 2. So what I usually do - say if you're typing out a recipe card or something.
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Um, but it's not made very clear and it's not very easy in how to do it so I'm going to show you quickly here how I do it. We can all type a 1/4 or 1/2 but we, it looks a little bit strange and we always like to have a nice, cute, tight little fraction. Today I'm going to show you how to make those cute little fractions in Adobe Illustrator. Seems like I should be doing this in Illustrator, but even then I'm not sure it's possible.Hi thanks for watching. Also, it would help a lot if you knew some resources to look at to get better at making the font glyphs and doing batch operations like this. I would like to know if this is the better workflow. So my question is, (1) Can FontLab actually do this? And (2) Is it better to do all the "vector work" in Illustrator, and only when you are close to "feature complete" for the glyphs do you move them into FontLab for output to the font file. It seems FontLab tried to recreate some of Illustrators stuff, but are miles and miles behind the technology, so it's almost worthless to use FontLab as a vector editor (let alone one at scale). This seems like something that might be possible in Illustrator, but I am sad to find that it doesn't seem possible to do this in FontLab. etc." Basically, tell them the constraints I would like the font glyphs to all have, and then boom, it dynamically adjusts each individual glyph to be 20pt to the left and right edge, scaled appropriately. Take the farthest points to the right and put them 20pt to the left of the right edge of the guides. Instead, I would like to say basically: "take the farthest points on the left, and put them 20pt to the right of 0. I don't know what percentage width to change each glyph!!! The glyphs are each different sizes and in different places in the glyph area, so I don't know what sort of math I would need to bring out to figure this out, but it seems crude and hard. The only option I see in FontLab is to select multiple glyphs in the font view, then go to the Transform Panel and specify a percentage width. The reason I'm asking is because I would like to scale all of my glyphs in the font to be the same width and height and be centered according to the guides. You don't use FontLab to do the actual drawing and resizing of the glyphs, because it seems to primitive to do anything substantial. The only reason you use FontLab is to organize your glyphs into the font file. Then only once the glyph is basically done do you go into FontLab and copy-paste your Illustrator glyph and boom it fits into the grid automatically. I'm wondering if people use Illustrator to design the actual font-glyph, and use Illustrator until the glyph is fully developed, positioned, etc.