Hi, this is Gary with MacMost.com.
On today's episode let's take a look at using Font Panel Favorites.
Now if you use fonts in apps you probably know there are different ways to set up styles
as defaults and things you can use again.
I'm going to create a new Pages document here.
You can see I've got the Format sidebar on and I can change fonts and set character styles.
But there is a way to do this that is across applications.
So it not only works in Pages but other places as well.
So let me show you here.
I'm going to select the word test.
Instead of using this I'm going to go to Format, Font, Show Fonts.
Command T is the universal shortcut for this.
It brings up something called the Fonts Panel here.
We can use this Fonts Panel here to select the font and it will change it here for what
we have selected.
So I can select the font and then a variation like there is a bolded variation of this particular
font.
Different fonts some have a few variations and some have many.
This has a whole bunch of different ones here.
We can change it and change the size and all of that.
Now if there is something we are going to be reusing, using a lot not just in Pages
but in other applications as well, we can save that as a Favorite.
The way to do that is to click the Tools button here and Add to Favorites.
Now if we select the Favorites collection here we will see it has been added and it
has been named.
The name of the font, the style, and also the point size.
We can do that with other fonts as well.
For instance, let's go ahead and select another font here, another size, another style and
we'll add that also.
Now we see we have two here in Favorites.
I have the text still selected and I can very quickly jump between these by simply selecting
them here.
Now the great thing about using these favorites here is they work in other applications.
So for instance let's switch to TextEdit.
Here I am in TextEdit and I have a rich text document and I can also bring up the Fonts
Panel.
I can type something and select it.
You can see I can use the same panel here and my Favorites even show up even though
I am using another application.
The same thing is also true even in Mail.
I can be composing a new message here and I can also bring up the Fonts Panel with Command
T and there are my Favorites here.
So I can create these favorites in any app using this Fonts Panel and then I can access
the Favorites very easily anywhere I want.
Now in addition to setting some of the basics here you can even do things like setting the
color.
So let's select some text here.
I can change the color of this.
Then once I do that I could Add to Favorites.
You can see I have another version here that is a different color.
I can switch between them but notice that the color doesn't reflect over there.
I find that it is hit or miss.
Sometimes colors selected from the Fonts Panel work and sometimes they don't.
Now deleting these favorites here can be a little bit tricky.
If you simply alter one you can add a new favorite and you get a second copy of it.
But if you want to get rid of it you think hitting the delete key will work.
That won't.
It will actually delete over here.
The way to do it is to drag out and then it goes away.
You can also add more collections here.
So you've got Favorites and it is easy to Add to Favorites thanks to this command right
here.
But you can also create a collection, call it whatever you want, and then you can drag
and drop here.
So you can go into your Favorites and you can drag one in here.
It will still be in Favorites because it is still favorited but you will see it also there.
So you can kind of create your own collections.
The ones you see here actually correspond to groups of fonts that you've got.
For instance, Modern fonts or Traditional fonts.
You will see them here.
But these that you create are kind of like favorites in that you can set a particular
style.
You can also double click on these and rename them.
So if there is something particular like a style that your company uses for correspondence
or for headings you can name it that and then have easy access to knowing which one to use.
In addition to creating favorite fonts with a full collection of style and size you can
also create your favorite sizes over here.
So you've got this command where you can do Edit Sizes and instead of using this default
set say for the work you do you are always using font size 20 you can actually add that
new size in there and then it will appear there and you don't have to enter it manually
every time.
You can enter it manually right there but sometimes it is nice to actually have it here
and be able to select it.