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The "hits" show in the Font list Figure 12 , which displays the family names with the semibold faces listed beneath them only the semibold faces, which can sometimes be confusing— Didn't that font have a regular bold face, too?
Searching for semibold with Style as the category finds fonts with semibold styles, and lists only those faces for each font. To Return or not: As with the Finder's Spotlight searches, Font Book's search function starts looking as soon as you start typing; pressing Return isn't strictly necessary, since merely typing starts the search.
Pressing Return, however, deactivates the Search field so the next key pressed won't be appended to what you've already typed there. Example 2—Find font faces with Hebrew characters.
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Now, what if you want to type the word shalom in its native Hebrew— —but you don't know what you have in the way of Hebrew fonts? This is another easy one:. The results may include what seem to be unusual "Hebrew" fonts, like Lucida Grande, but that's because many Unicode fonts that are primarily Roman also include foreign language character sets.
The available search categories make some searches simple, like the two just described, but they're not always as focused as you'd expect:. If you know the beginning of your font's name, it's easier to type a few letters of it when the Font list is active.
But if you only know a partial name hmm Unfortunately, "Name" also looks at the copyright information, not just the name of the font, so typing Apple selects not only Apple Chancery and Apple Symbols, but also every font that came with Tiger. To prepress houses and service bureaus, it is the pit stop: For designers that juggle a range of clients and projects, working with fonts is more a nebulous creative ritual of feeling a brand, and it demands a tool worthy of the task.
In simpler times, you pulled open a drawer, chose between the three sets of steel blocks, said "I don't care who you are, you're getting Garamond," and that was that. Nowadays clients are wiser and choosier, fonts are cheaper not making them out of steel helps , and everyone and their dog is making fonts the dog fonts are terrible; you really don't want to use those.
The result is a need to handle and navigate the abundant libraries available while not stifling that creative process. Now, years after Suitcase started the ball rolling on System 6, we're lucky enough to have some very mature font management tools for Mac OS X. After a slow and rocky start for font management on Mac OS X, it's now good times for font junkies. So with the stage set, let's see how they fared.
Before we start, I have to field this question since I know some people are wondering why they should consider spending a dime or bandwidth grabbing a new font manager when Mac OS X seems to have its own included. I'll give a few reasons why Font Book, while a nice utility and a welcome addition to the system, is not enough for professional font management needs:. That may not seem like a long list of strikes but collectively that puts Font Book in the doghouse for real-world professional use.
The "hits" show in the Font list Figure 12 , which displays the family names with the semibold faces listed beneath them only the semibold faces, which can sometimes be confusing— Didn't that font have a regular bold face, too? The first two are not so common on Unix, the third was not designed for the screen and becomes all but illegible on a Unix monitor. My Profile Log Out. Unfortunately, "Name" also looks at the copyright information, not just the name of the font, so typing Apple selects not only Apple Chancery and Apple Symbols, but also every font that came with Tiger. Approximately 12 fonts were included with the classic Mac OS versions 1—9.