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I can see my fonts in FontBook. When I hover over a letter to see what key, it says Glyph 142 and then under that U + E022. How do I know what keystroke that is to use the glyph in a program?

Posted on Oct 6, 2019 1:06 PM

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Posted on Oct 7, 2019 6:32 AM

trisha268 wrote:

I can see my fonts in FontBook. When I hover over a letter to see what key, it says Glyph 142 and then under that U + E022. How do I know what keystroke that is to use the glyph in a program?

There are thousands of characters you cannot make from the keyboard, but need to use the Character Viewer instead.


https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/use-emoji-and-symbols-on-mac-mchlp1560/10.14/mac/10.14



Plus E022 is a "private use" character which may not display in many apps.


Can you provide the name of the font and describe what this character is supposed to look like?



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Oct 7, 2019 6:32 AM in response to trisha268

trisha268 wrote:

I can see my fonts in FontBook. When I hover over a letter to see what key, it says Glyph 142 and then under that U + E022. How do I know what keystroke that is to use the glyph in a program?

There are thousands of characters you cannot make from the keyboard, but need to use the Character Viewer instead.


https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/use-emoji-and-symbols-on-mac-mchlp1560/10.14/mac/10.14



Plus E022 is a "private use" character which may not display in many apps.


Can you provide the name of the font and describe what this character is supposed to look like?



Oct 6, 2019 3:57 PM in response to trisha268

In the System/Keyboard/Keyboard preference pane check this checkbox:


In the Keyboard menu above select Show Keyboard viewer:


Then try the key combinations (the light keys in the animated screenshot) to see what keys give what glyphs:


When you press the glyph you want it will be place where the cursor is in the document/window you are working in.


Oct 9, 2019 6:53 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

The name of the font is "I Love Glitter". the glyphs are swishes and hearts or letters with fancy curly ends. I was able to open the Character Viewer but I only see the basis emojis and characters. How do I see the ones for the I Love Glitter Font? I'm trying to use this with my Cricut so using the Cricut Design Space app (not sure if you are familiar). I also tried doing it from Word and Font Book with the same result. Perhaps this is the limitation you were talking about.


Thank you for your help!!

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