Previewing fonts, Choose a font family and style – Adobe Photoshop CS4 User Manual
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Last updated 1/10/2010
A type style is a variant version of an individual font in a font family. Typically, the Roman or Plain (the actual name
varies from family to family) member of a font family is the base font, which may include type styles such as regular,
bold, semibold, italic, and bold italic. If a font doesn’t include the style you want, you can apply faux styles—simulated
versions of bold, italic, superscript, subscript, all caps, and small caps styles.
Typefaces include many characters in addition to the ones you see on your keyboard. Depending on the font, these
characters can include ligatures, fractions, swashes, ornaments, ordinals, titling and stylistic alternates, superior and
inferior characters, old-style figures, and lining figures. A glyph is a specific form of a character. For example, in certain
fonts, the capital letter A is available in several forms, such as swash and small cap.
To make fonts available to Photoshop and other Adobe Creative Suite applications, install them in these system
folders:
Windows
Windows/Fonts
Mac
OS
Library/Fonts
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Previewing fonts
You can view samples of a font in the font family and font style menus in the Character panel and other areas in the
application from where you can choose fonts. The following icons are used to indicate different kinds of fonts:
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OpenType
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Type 1
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TrueType
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Multiple Master
You can turn off the preview feature or change the point size of the font names in Type preferences.
Choose a font family and style
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Choose a font family from the Font Family menu in the Character panel or options bar. If more than one copy of a
font is installed on your computer, an abbreviation follows the font name: (T1) for Type 1 fonts, (TT) for TrueType
fonts, or (OT) for OpenType fonts.