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Specify superscript or subscript characters
Superscript and subscript text (also called superior and inferior text) is reduced-size text that is raised or lowered in
relation to a font's baseline. If the font does not include superscript or subscript characters, Photoshop generates faux
superscript or subscript characters.
1 Select the type you want to change.
Do one of the following:
2
• Click the Superscript button
• Choose Superscript or Subscript from the Character palette menu. A check mark indicates that the option is
selected.

Fonts

About fonts
A font is a complete set of characters—letters, numbers, and symbols—that share a common weight, width, and style,
such as 10-pt Adobe Garamond Bold.
Typefaces (often called type families or font families) are collections of fonts that share an overall appearance, and are
designed to be used together, such as Adobe Garamond.
A type style is a variant version of an individual font in a font family. Typically, the Roman or Plain (the actual name
varies from family to family) member of a font family is the base font, which may include type styles such as regular,
bold, semibold, italic, and bold italic. If a font doesn't include the style you want, you can apply faux styles—
simulated versions of bold, italic, superscript, subscript, all caps, and small caps styles.
Typefaces include many characters in addition to the ones you see on your keyboard. Depending on the font, these
characters can include ligatures, fractions, swashes, ornaments, ordinals, titling and stylistic alternates, superior and
inferior characters, old-style figures, and lining figures. A glyph is a specific form of a character. For example, in
certain fonts, the capital letter A is available in several forms, such as swash and small cap.
In addition to the fonts installed on your system, you can also use the fonts installed in these folders:
Program Files/Common Files/Adobe/Fonts
Windows
Library/Application Support/Adobe/Fonts
Mac OS
If you install a Type 1, TrueType, OpenType, or CID font into the local Fonts folder, the font appears in Adobe appli-
cations only.
See also
"OpenType fonts" on page 417
"About missing fonts and glyph protection" on page 416
Previewing fonts
You can view samples of a font in the font family and font style menus in the Character panel and other areas in the
application from where you can choose fonts. The following icons are used to indicate different kinds of fonts:
• OpenType
or the Subscript button in the Character palette.
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