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Adobe XD: Feature Requests (Read-Only): 01 : Design mode

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Glyphs Palette

With FontAwesome font files and the like, it's impractical to make quick use of their icons/glyphs without a palette, as the entire character set does not use qwerty, but are special/hidden characters.

I can live without granular type tools like kerning, but not having accessibility to the glyphs of a given font file is a dearly missed feature from working in Photoshop or Illustrator. At least on OS X, the OS character viewer is not as friendly as Adobe's other implementations of the glyphs palette.

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  • Matza commented  ·   ·  Report

    Sometimes in XD my hands are tied. I can't design what I want. That's frustrating. And one thing are the old-fashioned figures. My font Meta Pro has this. But often there are the normal lining figures are needed, because in heading etc. it looks weird if the first glyph (number) is a small old-fashioned figure/number. But how to select this? I can't paste it in from Photoshop or something else. It's not possible. I have to tell my client: "Sorry but my designing software is bad, I can't show you the design how I like to. You have to imagine how the design should be …" That's really bad …

  • Daniëlle Honcoop commented  ·   ·  Report

    I'm looking for a way to change a character in my default font. I use the font family Proxima Nova (an Adobe font, what I have activated). In InDesign you can choose between two character for the letter 'a'. There I can change the font with find glyph en replace it for the other one. This is an extra action I make for all my designs.

    It would be awesome to set that letter 'a' as a default a in that typefont. Because I can only use the right one in InDesign. Adobe XD don't has that option. Is there a way to change a character and set it as my default character in that font. So that I can use it in all my Adobe programs?

  • Emily Pastor commented  ·   ·  Report

    Every day that I use XD, I have to open Photoshop as well just to access a glyph panel to copy/paste glyphs into XD... and they don't always work. Having a built-in glyphs panel or plugin would eliminate the need to do this extra step that adds complications and headaches.

  • DM Workroom commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please, this is essential to have glyphs access as much as soft returns in paragraphs! A good website is generally made of 80% of text content, therefore we need more tools to craft text!

  • Joachim Weichert commented  ·   ·  Report

    A glyphs-palette would help me very much while working with icon-fonts. Thank you.

  • Emamuzo Okerri commented  ·   ·  Report

    its will be great to have this feature. pretty important for easy work flow.

  • Andreas Dobos commented  ·   ·  Report

    I tried to access a glyph from a font but I only got an error instead of the glyph. I tried it from InDesign and Font Explorer.

    It would be very helpful to have a glyph panel to have accesibility to all glyphs in a font.

  • Madeline Folz commented  ·   ·  Report

    This would be really helpful for working with custom icon fonts. Surprised that this doesn't have more votes. Even if you use a downloaded icon font pack and aren't making your own, this would really speed up workflow. It's so annoying to have to go back and forth between illustrator and Xd every time I want an icon. Which, being a web designer, is extremely often. Please please implement.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Totally agree. Not having a glyphs palette really slows down productivity.

  • [Deleted User] commented  ·   ·  Report

    My company wants to start using XD but if this basic function is not in what else is missing so **********

  • Rob Lee commented  ·   ·  Report

    We use Font Awesome and they have glyphs to use in prototypes. This would be huge.

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