Working with Asian glyphs


    The Glyphs palette provides additional settings when Illustrator is set to display Asian type options. You can replace selected characters with a variety of glyph forms and revert alternate glyphs to their default forms.

To replace characters with a different glyph form:

  1. Select the characters you want to replace.
  2. Choose an option from the Glyphs palette menu. If an option is dimmed, the glyph form is not available for the current font:
    • Traditional Forms to replace the selected characters with traditional forms.
    • Expert Forms to replace the selected characters with their expert forms.
    • JIS 78 Forms to replace the selected characters with JIS 78 forms.
    • JIS 83 Forms to replace the selected characters with JIS 83 forms.
    • Monospaced Half-Width Forms to change the glyphs of the selected Latin characters to monospaced hankaku (half width).
    • Monospaced Third-Width Forms to change the glyphs of the selected Latin characters to monospaced half width.
    • Monospaced Quarter-Width Forms to change the glyphs of the selected Latin characters to monospaced quarter width.

To revert an alternate glyph to its default form:

  1. Select the glyph you want to revert.
  2. Choose Revert to Default Forms from the Glyphs palette menu.
  3. Note: You cannot use this method to revert alternate glyphs that were applied using a character style.