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More about Working with Fonts

You can click the arrow to the right of Clear the Font Open the
the Font Family menu to open the Family field Font menu
Font panel, which provides a
number of options for fi nding fonts Click here to change
you want to use in your design. the search behavior
(The same options are available when you type in the
wherever you see a Font Family Font Family field.
menu — the Character panel, the
Control panel, and the Properties Recently used fonts
panel.)
The top section of the menu lists
up to ten most recently used fonts. Pictographic fonts
These appear in the order they
were used, with the most recent
at the top of the menu. (You can Click an arrow to show
change the number of displayed all styles available in a
fonts in the Type pane of the specific font family. Available fonts
Preferences dialog box.)
The second section lists picture
fonts. The third section lists all
other fonts that are available to InDesign.

The font family names in each section appear in alphabetical The right column in the Font menu shows an icon to identify
order. An arrow to the left of a font name indicates that a the type of font:
specifi c font family includes more than one style. You can click
the arrow to show all possible styles in the panel. PostScript (Type 1) fonts have two fi le components
(outline and printer) that are required for output.
If you apply a font that includes more TrueType fonts have a single fi le but (until recently)
than one style, the style you choose were primarily used on the Windows platform.
appears in the Font Style menu. You OpenType fonts are contained in a single fi le that can
can open the Font Style menu to include more than 60,000 glyphs (characters) in a single
change the style without changing font. OpenType fonts are cross-platform; the same font
the font family.
can be used on both Macintosh and Windows systems.
Each font in the panel includes a sample of the font, which OpenType SVG fonts allow font glyphs to be created
defaults to show the currently selected text. If no text is as SVG (scalable vector graphics) artwork, which means
selected, the sample text simply shows the word “Sample.” glyphs can include multiple colors and gradients. These
You can choose a different sample text from the menu at the fonts, which are relatively new, are most commonly used
top of the panel. You can also change the size of the sample for emojis.
text using the three icons to the right of the menu. OpenType Variable fonts, introduced in 2016,
were developed jointly by Adobe, Apple, Google, and
Change the
sample text size Microsoft to allow a single font fi le to store a continuous
range of variants. If you apply a variable font, you can
adjust the width and weight of the applied font without
Click to change the need for different font fi les for variations such as
the sample text.
Bold, Black, Condensed, or Extended.
Adobe fonts are those that have been activated in
your Creative Cloud account.

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