Organize Illustrator/InDesign Layers with Unicode Characters

Use Unicode Characters to help organize layers. I color code mine too.

I’ve wanted Illustrator and InDesign to be able to put layers into groups (folders) for a long time, but it keeps not happening. So I’ve been naming my laers methodically so it appears organized and hierarchical and I realized today that I can totally copy and paste unicode characters to help me do this.

• Photoshop has Layer Groups
• Illustrator does not have Layer Groups
• Illustrator has, instead, Sublayers
• Sublayers != Layer Groups
• InDesign, starting with CS5, has Sublayers
• Adobe is probably not going to give InDesign and Illustrator Layer Groups anytime soon ☹.