![]() To make changes to your text formatting, you have a few options: you can use the quick commands under the Font menu, you can utilize the various buttons and pop-up menus in the app’s toolbar, or you can activate the Font Panel. The Font Panel is a window into your store of System and User fonts. The typical Format menu found in many OS X apps The typical path is Format > Font > Show Fonts. It’s present is not a requirement necessarily, but a very common gateway to the Font Panel. Look for a menu called Format in your app. It contains some really neat and easy to use font customization and organizational tools – available to you right from within the app.Īlthough I use the Pages app for the purposes of illustration, what I am about to explain here is applicable to most modern apps that run under OS X. Think of the Font Panel as a subset of the aforementioned Font Book utility. ![]() ![]() Instead, I want to show you how to use something called the Font Panel or Font Window that almost all modern OS X apps provide where text editing is involved. That’s the subject of another – and probably much longer – article. This is an advanced tool for full management, installation, troubleshooting and repair of system and user fonts. I am not talking about the OS X utility app called Font Book which is pre-installed on every Mac and located in the Applications folder. However, from my interactions with many Mac users over the years, I’ve observed that when it comes to simple font selection and management directly from within an app, a good number of them have been oblivious to all the convenient tools provided. ![]() I’m certain that a good number of my readers know all about changing text fonts and font styles in their OS X apps when writing is involved.
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