pplaut Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 I’m looking for a checkmark. Is there a map as to what key combinations match what wing ding? when looking for a square I just started tapping keys till I got lucky! Thanks! ~P. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 There are probably various applications that offer the option to show a glyph table of your installed fonts and keyboard keys. In Affinity you can try the Glyph Browser for instance, though it doesn't simply display the keys as you see them named on your keyboard but it gives hints in Tooltips in various ways that are more specific. Also you can double-click a wanted glyph to paste it in a text frame at the current text cursor position. Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 You can also search by character name in the Glyph Browser, using Unicode character names. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTO Posted July 29, 2023 Share Posted July 29, 2023 You can also choose Emoji & Symbols (which is accessible via the bottom left key on newer Macs unless you've remapped your keyboard). Then you can search on the word check. (If your emoji window looks like the one on the right, click its upper right icon to switch to the character viewer shown on the left.) I don't really recommend this, you're picking the symbol and then in the bottom right of the window you're choosing the font. It feels backward but if you want a quick checkmark and don't care which font it's from this is one way to do it. The advantage of this over Affinity's glyph browser is that it can find all checkmarks in all fonts at once. thomaso 1 Quote Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.5 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.5 for macOS Sequoia 15.1, MacBook Pro 14" (M4 Pro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted July 29, 2023 Share Posted July 29, 2023 51 minutes ago, MikeTO said: Emoji & Symbols (which is accessible via the bottom left key on newer Macs … or via the main menu > language/flag icon in the menu bar (icon gets activated via the system preferences > keyboard), @pplaut. Nice search function across all installed fonts by 'keyword' or by visual parameters. Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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