You might have seen some designers use really cool swirly texts decorated with ornaments and asked them what font(s) they used, but when you tried for yourself it just didn't work?!!
There's a great probability that the other designer used a web font on Photoshop. But life isn't as easy for us mobile designers, is it?! *sighs*
So here I'll try to share a method I found out, with trial and error, on accessing these fancy glyphs and special characters on your Android or ioS devices.
For the purpose of this tutorial, I'm using this gorgeous font called, 'Royal Typeface' by rizkimau. It's not available for free but I won it in a giveaway and this is just the regular version, there are other styles available for purchase, each for $30 on Myfonts.com.
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You see in the image above it says that the font has, '1,500 glyphs', which means there are so many different ways the characters in this fonts can be used!
Let's start with downloading your desired font to your device, doesn't matter if it's a .otf or .ttf and unzipping the file if needed.
Move the font (.otf or .ttf) file to the fonts folder in your device or wherever you save your other fonts. In my case, 'RoyalTypeface-Regular.otf.'
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Next open this website on your browser, http://torinak.com/font/lsfont.html (will leave a comment with the link to access it through your device, log into Wattpad with your browser or simply type it in) and it should look something like this:
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