MM28 - FontBook, Font Panel & Placeit
A Mac montage show this week, but with a bit of a theme.
And the theme is Fonts on OSX.
In this multipart show I explore the hidden virtues of FontBook, an application included with OSX to manage, organise and repair your fonts. I also take a look at the standard Font Panel accessible by many OSX apps to format and tweak your text. One further related section is a new Alfred workflow I found that allows you to easily search for and select "special" characters from Alfred itself.
Finishing off with a very cool, free web service that allows you to create hi res photos of your Mac or iOS screenshots, superimposed on actual photos of Apple gear - very smart!
This full tutorial includes sections …
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A Mac montage show this week, but with a bit of a theme.
And the theme is Fonts on OSX.
In this multipart show I explore the hidden virtues of FontBook, an application included with OSX to manage, organise and repair your fonts. I also take a look at the standard Font Panel accessible by many OSX apps to format and tweak your text. One further related section is a new Alfred workflow I found that allows you to easily search for and select "special" characters from Alfred itself.
Finishing off with a very cool, free web service that allows you to create hi res photos of your Mac or iOS screenshots, superimposed on actual photos of Apple gear - very smart!
This full tutorial includes sections on:
- Font Book
- Installing Fonts & Font Libraries
- Font Collections
- Previewing Fonts
- Troubleshooting Fonts
- Using the OSX Font Panel
- Alfred Workflow: Symbols - Link
- Placeit by Breezi - Link
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