Find Glyphs and Advanced Type Features in Sketch

Yes they’re there and no you wont be happy about it because its still not that great— just be prepared

Just look at those glyphs on that sentence! No they dont need to be there but its a process yall…calm down.

We all know that designer. Yes that designer that is working through a sweet new design in Sketch and then they come upon something so terrible its hard to talk about. It is the thing that shall not be named for those that use the Sketch app. Yes, you’ve got it. I’m talking about the “g” word. The dreaded “glyphs”. “OH NO NOT GLYPHS!!” you scream in dismay. “Yes————glyphs,” I cackle incoherently as the word slowly reverberates through your headphones, diminishing ever so quietly as the seconds strain to move forward. This is hell.

Not just glyphs though, there are other open type features that you may be interested in accessing and lets be honest, maybe we should say it all together.

Sketch is not that great with type

There, thats better.

Lets find those glyphs

I’ll stop all of my lollygagging and just show you where to find them in a series of screenshots!

1. Open up your favorite Sketch project

Here we have a standard sketch project

This is what we are looking to add onto any space that we can

2. Once you have that project find a space to enter your text. In this instance I have a sybmol that I’ve created in Sketch for large “Ad” space and/or space that the business can use to announce or highlight important features to their brand and allow users to request a quote.

If you can't tell, I’ve selected the appropriate text box in the right hand side to add my glyphs.

3. Open up the “view menu” and select the “show fonts” option