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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
menu). In the Type pane of the
appear in the second
Preferences dialog box, you can Document fonts
section of the menu.
change the number of displayed
fonts; you can also choose to list Click a hollow star
them alphabetically instead of in to add a font to Available fonts
the order they were used. your “favorites” list. appear in the lower
part of the menu.
The second section of the menu lists Click a solid star to
document fonts (if any). These remove a font from PostScript font
are fonts that exist in a “Document your “favorites” list.
Fonts” folder that resides in the Typekit font
same folder as the active InDesign TrueType font
file. Document Fonts are available Click an arrow to show
for the active file even if they are all styles available in a OpenType font
not installed on your OS. (See specific font family.
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 Show Favorite Fonts
fonts that are synced through Typekit, fonts that are marked as favorites, or
fonts that are similar to the currently active font. (You can also click the Add Show Typekit Fonts Show Similar Fonts
Fonts from Typekit button to navigate to the Adobe Typekit website, where
you can browse and select fonts to sync in your 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 website through your Creative Cloud
the Font Family field. You can open the account.
Font Style menu to change the style • A sample of each font appears at the right side of the
without changing the font family.
menu. You can change the size of the sample in the Type
pane of the Preferences dialog box.

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