OpenType: Stylistic Alternates

[idennyt]

Today's (5/29/2012) mini tut was a photoshop tip about Opentype. I've gone through all my script fonts and even downloaded an opentype script font today, but that "Stylistic Alternates" is always grayed out. Does anyone know the name of a font that has that option active? Thanks.

[idennyt]

Anyone, please? I don't know who wrote the tip, so i cannot send a pm...

[cilenia]

So sorry I didn't see this sooner! I'm the one who writes the tips and mini tutorials along with Vicky Day.

You can find TONS of OpenType fonts at http://www.fontsquirrel.com/
Make sure it says Opentype and not TrueType to get all the yummy options. You will see this on their tag line to the bottom left of each font.

Another way to know if you have any already is the file extension will have OTF instead of TTF if you look in your font folder on your computer.

To see a really deep explanation of OpenType, see Adobe's site here. http://www.adobe.com/type/opentype/

Have fun!

[idennyt]

Hi Cilenia! thank you. I went to the adobe site and downloaded the Open Type Users guide--it explained a lot. I went to fontsquirrel and downloaded all the script fonts--learned a valuable lesson today about installing fonts as shortcuts in Win7, then organizing the font folder after--disaster!