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- rob1
The Photoshop Help describes this palette as: "The Character palette provides options for formatting characters."
Why is this palette called "Character" when it is for "Type"?
Any guesses?
- skt0
As you can edit the K and B and C characters in it. And some others.
I don't know, does it really matter?
- Bluejam0
that's a million dollar question you got there.
- radar0
the character is an individual letter in a typeface?
- radar0
... wait who gets the million the person who asks the question or the person who answers it?
Is that another million dollar question?
- spiralstarez0
radar:
the first question was a million dollar question. Any questions about million dollar questions are two million dollar questions.
- radar0
sweet, beers for everyone.
- j_red0
hahahaha
- jaymac440
is this a real question? I mean there are murderers and politicians out there we should be concerned about. And murders put to death by politicians! Pave Tootie!!!!
- johndiggity0
here is the answer:
type can have multiple meanings in a software interface. would the type pallette have to do with just letters and numbers? or could it also deal with file types? image type? get it? the ui people know what they are doing.
- rob10
johndiggity:
the word "type" versus "file type" mean 2 different things. No one would look at a UI element labled "type" and see the options beneath it relating to typefaces and think that it meant "file type"Not seeing your point.
This palette has, over the years, come to mean more about typography, than about individual characters.
I guess its just one of those legacy type things....that's the way the original developer labeled it and it stuck over the years.
Either way, I just posed the question out of curiousity.
- johndiggity0
think about it. both ily and indesign have type in the menu bar. photoshop isn't really used for a lot of typesetting. putting type in the pshop menu bar would be confusing due to the many types of image formats its capable of working with.