A font (more accurately a typeface) is the visual appearance, representation or interpretation of a set of characters, typically alphanumeric as a minimum.
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Which font is used when I export formulas from Grapher?
You can export formulas from Grapher with drag&drop. Which font is used for this? I want to write some stuff in the same font in Keynote, but I cannot find the correct font...
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How do you use small caps in Pages?
I don't see any obvious options for small caps in Pages, either under styles or text formatting. Do I need a special font, or does Pages have small caps capability at all?
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Is there a way to change the typeface used in Safari's “Reader” mode?
The typeface used in Safari's "Reader" mode (on both iOS and OS X) seems to be some form of Palatino, which, while certainly not the worst screen face, isn't the best either. This used to be a ...
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Cannot change font size in Xcode 4?
Everywhere I look I see that in order to change the Font size in Xcode I simply click on the "fonts window button".
However, I can't.
I have a default install of Xcode, just started trying to use it ...
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Select font when converting .txt to .pdf from command line
I often need to convert text files to PDF from the command line. I currently use enscript, a2pdf, cupsfilter, etc. The feature I'm missing is the ability to use an OS X font instead of one of the ...
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Formatting Text in Mail
I'd like to have all email that I send formatted with my font and size and color, like the way web based email does it. I'd just like to set a default font and have all email I send formatted this ...
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Web fonts look worse after deleting MS Office
I recently deleted my MS Office 2011 and decided to use only iWork or Libre Office or LaTeX. The problem is, now fonts on all browsers look worse than before. I have no idea why this is so, it only ...
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How to show more fonts in Preview?
Using cmd+t while annotating an image with text in Preview I don't find all the fonts I have installed. For example there is no Verdana or Century Gothic.
How can I view them?
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Helvetica font rendering issue on MacBook Leopard
So I have just re-installed Leopard on my MacBook and recovered from my Time Machine only to find I have font rendering issues with the Helvetica font:
This happens in browser or in apps like Mail. ...
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Inconsolata font does not work in Terminal
I'd like to use Inconsolata as the closest free approximation of the Consolas font for editing and programming on my Mac. After downloading Inconsolata's OpenType file I changed TextWrangler's ...
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Is it possible to increase the font size in iTunes?
How does one make the fonts that iTunes uses for things like app descriptions larger? I know about Universal Access -> Zoom, but I'm looking for something a little more app-specific, like web ...
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Any Twitter clients for iPhone with larger font size?
Are there any Twitter clients for iPhone that have larger font size than the one used in the official Twitter for iPhone app?
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CSS font-family problem with iPhone? [closed]
The fonts on my website displays normal on all PC browsers at the moment except on Apple mobile devices (testing with iPhone). Safari on my PC falsely renders the font-family and size in the beginning ...
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Beautiful, outlined font name in Mac OS X
What is the font called in Mac OS X, like the main navigation bar at the top of this site, or something like the font that shows the date at the top right of Mac OS (It has the sort of white outline)?
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How to set a Monospace Font for Dashboard Sticky Notes Widget?
I would like to use a monospaced font on the Sticky Notes in Apple's Dashboard widget.
However, only a few fonts can be selected, none of which is monospaced.
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Move “Favorites” font collection to another machine
On my old laptop I had a moderate-sized collection of "favorites" fonts that I've set over the past few years. The laptop is now gone, but I have a disk image with the entire contents of the hard ...
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Font Book finds duplicate fonts installed by Microsoft Office
Once you install Microsoft Office on a Mac, you get a bunch of new fonts. This is great, except many of them conflict with existing fonts that shipped with OS X.
Open Font Book.
Select all fonts in ...
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Is there an app that quickly makes an image of selected text?
I'm facing the following problem:
I would like to compare different fonts in a presentation by arranging single letters such as 'a' next to each other. Imagine a slide with, say, a Helvetica 'a' on ...
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Export Apple symbol font glyph to image
I am trying to add an apple symbol to an iPhone app I am writing. It there a way to export an item in the font to an image?
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How can I combine multiple font files into one family?
I have several font families that have different naming styles. The results is that instead of all those fonts showing up as one family, there's a separate family for each font variation (bold, black, ...
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View all a fonts characters app?
Is there a Mac app for viewing all the characters of a font?
Font book doesn't seem have this feature.
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How do I convert a suitcase font?
I have a font set - Type: Font Suitcase
I am sure I have used a terminal command to convert it to a TTF or OTF. I don't really want to pay for software to do so. What is the best way of converting ...
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How can I change the background and text colour for messages in Mail.app
I much prefer reading white text on a black background. Is it possible for me to configure Mail.app so that messages are displayed white-on-black instead of the other way around?
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OS X Lion, Safari: could not turn off antialiasing
I had the antialiasing disabled in Safari (5.0?) in Snow Leopard, by setting
defaults write com.apple.Safari AppleAntiAliasingThreshold -int 200
Now I have OS X Lion with Safari 5.1, and that ...
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Do the “Print to PDF” / “Save to PDF” options embed fonts in the PDF file?
Specifically:
When doing this within the MS Office suite (Powerpoint, Word etc.), does the font get embedded within the PDF?
Does Preview.app embed fonts when “Saving as PDF”?
If I’m generating the ...
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How can I fix broken font-rendering in Safari?
On some sites (especially this one) I cannot read certain parts, there are only A's displayed.
How can I fix this?
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How can I change the text colour and font of the username and password in Lion login
I would like to change the text you type your username and password in with on the Lion login screen. I have a Command and conquer login screen and I would like to change the colour of the username ...
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Is there a way to make all fonts larger on the Macbook Air 13 or 11?
Instead of getting a Macbook Pro 13 or 15, I was thinking of getting the Macbook Air 13 or 11 inch, but checking the machines at Apple store, it turns out the density of pixels of the screen of the ...
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What monospace font is most legible at the smallest size?
Does anyone know which monospace font in the Terminal program or iTerm is the best to use at very small font sizes?
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Missing glyphs from some fonts
Some international fonts (such as Devanagari and others in that area) are apparently missing some glyphs.
Checking the lower left of wikipedia I get squares ("missing glyph symbol"), and going into ...
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How to change the font smoothing setting from the command line?
I'm trying to avoid installing lots of software willy-nilly, because like so many Mac users I don't have antivirus software. Case in point, I really like TinkerTool but I'd rather change my system ...
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Is there a way to change font sizes system-wide while preserving UI resolution?
I have a 17" widescreen mac book pro (1920 x 1080) and find it hard to read the small fonts in the finder menu and in the Finder let hand panel even though my vision is good. Even the font's in most ...
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Add new font to Java JRE so java can recognize it
I'm using a java program with a dropdown box to select some fonts to use. I want to add a new font into this list. The manufacturer said that I had to add the font file to my jre/lib/fonts directory, ...
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Fixed-width text not appearing correctly in Safari after Lion upgrade
I recently updated to Lion, and have found that at least some HTML tagged as <pre> or <tt> shows up looking like this
I've tried changing the fixed-width font in Safari. I've tried rebooting. ...
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How to change the order of my Favorites in the Special Characters palette?
I've added special characters that I frequently use to my favorites, but I'd like to group them more logically than simply the order in which I "favorite" them. Is this possible?
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Microsoft fonts (Consolas, Calibri, Candara, etc) not displaying in Safari since Lion upgrade
I can't see what I type as I write this question in Safari – all I see is lots of capital A's in boxes. I'm new here, so I'm not allowed to post a screen grab.
No problems in other browsers, or in ...
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Terminal text size different when connected to external monitor
I have a Macbook Pro 15" running OS X 10.6.8. When not connected to an external monitor, launching Terminal looks like this. Note the width of the text (almost looks bold).
When connected to my 24" ...
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Font properties of text layer in PSD file — possible to inspect without Photoshop?
I want inspect (and just that, without editing this layer) which font, size, color etc. were used in a given text layer in PSD file created with Photoshop. Is this doable without Photoshop.app? ...
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Terminal Encoding Not Working For Certain Characters
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This problem was solved in my case by changing terminal emulation from VT100 to xterm. Apparently the two programs I was trying don't behave properly when it comes to VT100 terminal line ...
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Strange font behavior with external monitors on MacBook
I have noticed some strange behavior when using an external monitor with my MacBook and DejaVu Sans Mono (or Panic Sans) with Terminal.app and TextMate.
If I launch these programs prior to plugging ...
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How to show serving fonts in character table
In the upper right corner of the screen, right beside the clock, you can open the character table which opens a window with a lot of different characters, sorted by categories (currencies, arrows, ...
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Font Book does not Install all fonts
My Mac decided to delete all but 19 fonts, which is fairly annoying. It didn't really delete them, as in I still have the original files in the /Library/Fonts folder, but they've disappeared from Font ...
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Is it possible to redefine what Keynote interprets as bold and normal for a particular font?
When working in Keynote I like to use medium and light fonts instead of bold and normal. This causes me a problem because when I hit apple-b to embolden something I want the font to be switched to ...
