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More About Working with Fonts Clear the Font Font menu
If you click the arrow to the right of
INDESIGN FOUNDATIONS a menu that lists every font that is when you type in the Recently used
Open the
the Font Family menu, you will see
Family field
available to InDesign.
Click here to change
the search behavior
The top section of the menu lists
the ten most recent fonts. By
fonts appear at the
Font Family field.
default, these appear in the order
top of the menu.
they were used (the most recently
used appears at the top of the
Click a hollow star
appear in the second
menu). In the Type pane of the
to add a font to
section of the menu.
Preferences dialog box, you can your “favorites” list. Document fonts
change the number of displayed
fonts; you can also choose to list Click a solid star to
them alphabetically instead of in remove a font from
the order they were used. your “favorites” list. Available fonts
appear in the lower
The second section of the menu lists part of the menu.
document fonts (if any). These Click an arrow to show
are fonts that exist in a “Document all styles available in a
specific font family.
Fonts” folder that resides in the OpenType font
same folder as the active InDesign PostScript font
file. Document Fonts are available
for the active file even if they are TrueType font
not installed on your operating
system. (See Project 3: Aerospace
Newsletter for more about creating a job package).
The top of the Font menu includes options for filtering fonts
to show only fonts that are marked as favorites, or fonts that Toggle these
are synced through Typekit. (You can also click the Add Fonts buttons to show
from Typekit button to navigate to the Adobe Typekit Web only favorite fonts
site, where you can browse and select fonts to sync in your or only Typekit fonts.
Adobe Creative Cloud account; Typekit is explained in greater
detail in Project 3: Aerospace Newsletter.)

Each font listed in the Font menu includes a number of elements:
• You can use the star icons on the left side of the font • An icon identifies the type of each font.
menu to define “favorite” fonts. You can then use the PostScript (Type 1) fonts have two file components
button at the top of the menu to show only those fonts (outline and printer) that are required for output.
that you have marked as favorites.
TrueType fonts have a single file, but (until recently)
• The font family names in each section appear in were primarily used on the Windows platform.
alphabetical order.
OpenType fonts are contained in a single file that can
An arrow to the left of a font name indicates that a include more than 60,000 glyphs (characters) in a single
specific font family includes more than one style. You font. OpenType fonts are cross-platform; the same font
can click the arrow to show all possible styles. can be used on both Macintosh and Windows systems.
If you apply a font that includes more than one style, the Typekit fonts are those that have been activated from
style you choose appears in the Font Style menu below the Adobe Typekit Web site through your Creative Cloud
the Font Family field. You can open the Font Style menu account.
to change the style without changing the font family.
There are other types of fonts, including PS Type 3 and
Multiple Master, but these should generally be avoided.
• A sample of each font appears at the right side of the
menu. You can change the size of the sample in the Type
pane of the Preferences dialog box.

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