Nov 05
Previously if you wanted to choose a font you’d look in Font Book or a 3rd party utility like Suitcase™. Well, with Leopard you don’t need any of that, because you have coverflow. Look in any folder containing fonts, and you get an ‘A’ and a ‘g’ show in an example of the typeface of the fonts there, and you can quickly look through them with coverflow. But, of course, one better, hit space for a quick preview and you get a whole alphabet shown in the typeface. Now that really is cool.
November 5th, 2007 at 8:17 am
Very cool, easy to scroll through and preview all the fonts without being in an app and choosing a font one by one, good find!
November 5th, 2007 at 8:45 am
actually, it’s a great way to delete unwanted fonts too! some of these fonts are huge in size, over 10MB each. Space saving to be had!
April 16th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
[...] is pretty cool. You may or may not use it often. Previously we’ve covered how to view your system fonts with coverflow, but how about this neat trick to view your iCal [...]