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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How to increase the size of the OS X user interface without lowering the resolution?
I can adjust a few things, such as the Dock, but I don't see a way to say, "I want 1080p resolution, but I'm sitting 5 feet away and want bigger menus, fonts, etc across the entire system."
This is ...
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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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How to obtain glyphs from the “Apple Symbols” font in Lion?
I'd like to make use of the special iOS symbols found in Apple Symbols font, e.g. the "Reload" and "Action" glyphs. In Snow Leopard, I could obtain and insert them via the "special characters" pane ...
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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 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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Google Chrome repeatedly displays monospaced fonts wrong as “Times New Roman”
I observe an extremely annoying font problem in Google Chrome for Mac. When I visit a page like GitHub or Bitbucket (which use monospaced fonts, e.g. for code) I see the HTML sections that are meant ...
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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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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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What's the font in Mac OS X's GUI?
What is the font that's used in Mac OS X's graphical user interface (GUI), in the menus, dialog boxes, etc.? Is it different from what was used in the classic Mac OS (i.e. OS 9 or older)? If so, what ...
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Can I get the original Mac font Chicago on a Mountain Lion Mac?
I'm running Mountain Lion on a mid 2011 MacBook Air.
I'd love to be able to set type in the oldest Macintosh font, Chicago. Is this font included anywhere in OS X Mountain Lion? If not, what is the ...
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How to set a default font for outgoing messages in Mail on Lion
Mail in OS X 10.7 (Lion) doesn't allow me to set a default font for outgoing messages, and it's finicky when I change it in the message.
When I show the font bar (by clicking the A button at the top ...
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How to install new font on OS X?
How to install new font on OS X to be used across OpenOffice, iWork, OfficeForMac, mail and other word processing applications?
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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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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 does the OS X font fallback system work?
I'm trying to design a font containing symbols for internal use in our organisation.
I've created a font using this tutorial, and I've assigned a symbol to the unicode position 0xF600. This lies ...
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What the font: the letter i used in Apple's information button
I am wondering what typeface this is:
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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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Change OSX system font [duplicate]
OS X Mountain Lion: Is there a way to change the default system font?
Things like color (I'd like it slightly more gray) and the type.
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And Font Weight, if possible.
Thanks
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Recommended fixed width font for shell prompts and Eclipse
I've just installed OS X Lion, and found that the default fonts (Menlo and Monaco) are quote uncomfortable for Shell prompts and the Eclipse IDE.
Is there a good, general-purpose fixed width font for ...
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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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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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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 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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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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Is it possible to use custom fonts in Mobile Safari?
I need to install a font in iPad2, and Safari must be able to use it. Is it possible?
Solution:
I'm developing a iPad2 app using a web wrapper (PhoneGap) and a JS framework (Sencha Touch 2). I need ...
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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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Can the default font size for “Email this Page” text be changed in Mountain Lion?
In Mountain Lion, Safari has a new method of "Email this Page" which opens up a new mail message where the web content can be shown as a page, pdf, or a link.
If one chooses "Link", the font type and ...
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How can I increase my font sizes without decreasing my resolution?
I have a 24" iMac at home which at the max resolution (1920 x 1200) is very comfortable for me to see my desktop and read text.
Now at work I have a 27" iMac with a max resolution of 2560 x 1440 ...
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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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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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Mac Terminal support for multiple fonts
I was trying to get emacs minimap to work on the terminal - http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MiniMap
However, the font is the same size as the rest of the screen, which makes it pretty useless. It ...
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Spaces and some other fonts are changed to rectangles?
I installed Microsoft Office 2011 yesterday on my MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard. I already had Microsoft Office 2008 on this device and simply added 2011. Now for some reason, many of my fonts have ...
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Windows-PowerPoint presentations on an iPad with great typography distortion
I have a PowerPoint presentation created on Microsoft Windows. When I play it on an iPad there are great typography distortions. There are a lot of fonts not found on the by iPad. Could I install my ...
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Is it possible to add a symbol to the character palette?
I guess everybody here knows about the character palette of Mac OS X.
Is it possible to create a new symbol, using an image or a vectorial shape made in Illustrator, and add it to the character ...
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Font smoothing on external display working badly. (rMBP)
I have attached two external monitors to my retina MacBook Pro:
24" Dell 1920x1200 with HDMI->DVI
19" Samsung 1280x1024 with Thunderbolt->VGA
While non-retina enabled apps look just fine (e.g. ...
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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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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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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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In Lion's new Mail.app, is it possible to change the font size of the mailbox list?
I have a small screen and MANY email mailboxes. I'd like to make the side panel font size smaller, but I can't find an option for it. Is there one?
(I can change the font size in messages and in the ...
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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 restore default Mountain Lion font distribution?
Deleting windows font which were copied from my bootcamp partition
I'd like to clean the installed font list because there might be a lot to deactivate by hand.
Is there a way to confirm which fonts ...
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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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Increase font size in OS
I have a 17-inche Macbook-pro, the resolution is at the moment 1920x1200, the font size of the system looks very small. Is there a way to increase the font size without changing the resolution? It ...
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Why does text occasionally render poorly in Safari for Windows?
I don't quite understand why certain websites like Twitter render text so badly in my Safari browser 5.1.2 (under Windows 7 x64). The same problem doesn't occur in Chrome or Firefox or IE. And it ...
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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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Is there a guideline for the max number of active fonts
I manage my fonts through FontExplorer X. Today I noticed that I have 770 fonts activated. All legitimately licensed, by the way. The Adobe CS family installs a bunch, I've purchased and have received ...
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Blackboard theme for iPad Keynote
I'm creating a presentation with my MacBook Pro and Keynote.
I'm using the theme Blackboard which uses the font Chalkboard.
When I import the presentation on my iPad Mini via iCloud the default font ...
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How do I change the default font size for reading in Mail 6.0?
How do I change the default font size for reading the body of messages in Mail 6.0? I know that I can use ctrl++, but I want the reading pane to default the body of the message to a larger font ...
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Using other glyphs in Arabic on the iPad
Arabic Keyboard on iPad uses GeezaPro font and obviously keys are limited compared to available glyphs, but what should I do if I want to use a glyph that doesn't have its own key. Is there any way I ...
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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? ...
