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How to validate fonts

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Fonts can sometimes go bad. Font Book helps you locate fonts with problems and delete them.

Read the full article ↣ 29 September 2009 2 comments

Many-faceted Characters

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Find alternative forms for a particular character — different shapes and so on.

Read the full article ↣ 26 November 2008 0 comments

Paste and Match Style

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Command Option Shift v in many programs allows you to paste text from elsewhere while matching the style of the paragraph you’re pasting into.

Read the full article ↣ 9 April 2008 2 comments

Font Tips

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The Font panel gives you access to your fonts and their characteristics from within applications.

Read the full article ↣ 3 October 2007 2 comments

Explore Font Book

Font Book, available in your Mac’s Applications folder, helps you manage your fonts.

Read the full article ↣ 19 September 2007 0 comments

Install a Font

How to install a font, such as the free Gentium, on Mac OS X.

Read the full article ↣ 12 September 2007 0 comments

Half the space

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The rule of typing into a wordprocessor is to only ever press the spacebar once. Use one single space after a fullstop, between words, or anywhere else spaces are required.

Read the full article ↣ 4 October 2006 0 comments

Ding-a-Ling Web and Wing

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The Dingbats and Webdings fonts give you easy access to all kinds of handy pictures you can include in your documents. Here’s how to get them.

Read the full article ↣ 16 October 2002 0 comments