Mac & html Symbol Keyboard shortcuts

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77    ©    Option-G   
78    ˚    Option-K   
79    ø    Option-O   
80    œ    Option-Q   
81    ®    Option-R   
82    †    Option-T   
83    ™    Option-2 (Trade Mark)   
84    ¶    Option-7   
85    •    Option-8 (Bullet)   
86    ¡    Option-1   
87    –    Option-Dash[-]     88 æ    Option-Single Quote[']
89    '    Option-Close Square Bracket[']']
90    "    Option-Open Square Bracket['[']
91    Å    Option-Shift-A
92    Ç    Option-Shift-C
93    Ø    Option-Shift-O
94    Œ    Option-Shift-Q
95    fi    Option-Shift-5
96    fl    Option-Shift-6
97    °    Option-Shift-8

for html unicode check out www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp or www.unicode.org/charts

more typography shortcuts

Switch Selection Tools Ctrl+Tab Insert Hyphen Shift+Ctrl+- Point Size Up Shift+Ctrl+. Point Size Down Shift+Ctrl+, Font Size Step Up Alt+Shift+Ctrl+. Font Size Step Down Alt+Shift+Ctrl+, Kern Looser Shift+Ctrl+] Kern Tighter Shift+Ctrl+[ Tracking Alt+Ctrl+K Clear Tracking Alt+Ctrl+Q Spacing Alt+Ctrl+O Uniform Type Shift+Ctrl+X Highlight Font Alt+Shift+Ctrl+F Highlight Font (Secondary) Alt+Shift+Ctrl+M Left Align Text Shift+Ctrl+L Center Text Shift+Ctrl+C Right Align Text Shift+Ctrl+R Justify Text Left Shift+Ctrl+J Justify All Lines Shift+Ctrl+F

Illustrator Typography shortcuts

_____Why? Because if you are intuitively working with the tools rather than dialogs, you can access more of your creative brain.

____What? Shortcuts

cmd-Shift-< or cmd-shift>  shrinks or grows your font by one point. Works for groups of fonts too.

alt arrow kerns by amount set in preferences/type
alt arrow up/down is leading
select your text and alt left and right for tracking

these three are sometimes referred to as the holy trinity of typography

Is there a shortcut for changing font?