![]() The preview area's contextual menu shows up only when it is set to Custom or Info view, and you often have to click in several spots before the menu shows up. ![]() Get in the habit of using contextual menus: Using contextual menus (Control-click to get them, or right-click if you have a two-button mouse) is faster than going to the regular menus if you're working on a big screen. It's an easy way to compare different weights like bold and semibold, or other attributes, such as condensed, semicondensed, ultracondensed, and so on. You can also open separate Preview windows for different typefaces in the same family by double-clicking on the typefaces in the Font list instead of on the family name. So, if you want to check out the differences between certain fonts (I have a collection of handwriting fonts with names like ChelsiesHand, HanksHand, and so on, and darned if I can remember which is which) before using or activating them, you can open a Preview window for each one. Use multiple Preview windows: You can double-click on a font to open a Preview window that shows a basic alphanumeric sample this doesn't seem any better than looking at it in the preview area, until you realize that you can open more than one at a time. Or, if you want to view or search through all the fonts in your user-defined libraries, you can select as many of them as necessary. ![]() So, if you want to see all your fonts except the ones in Classic Mac OS, you can select both User and Computer. Less obvious is the fact that you can select multiple items in the Collection list. This makes it easy to operate on more than one font at a time, whether you're dragging them into a collection or library, expanding them to see their typefaces, removing them, disabling them, or. Select multiple items quickly: You can select more than one font in the list with the usual Mac approach: Shift-click for contiguous selections, Command-click for noncontiguous ones. Hover over a name in either the Collection or Font list and you'll see a help tag that provides useful information, such as the number of fonts in a Collection list or faces in a font.
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