Font Book
{{Short description|MacOS font manager}}
{{about|the macOS font manager|the compendium of typefaces|FontBook}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2013}}
{{Infobox software
| name = Font Book
| logo = Font Book Icon.png
| logo_size =
| screenshot = Font Book.png
| screenshot_size = 300px
| caption = Font Book 10.0 under macOS 11
| latest release version = 11.0
| operating system = macOS
| genre = Font manager
}}
Font Book is a font manager by Apple Inc. for its macOS operating system. It was first released with Mac OS X Panther in 2003.
Features
Font Book is opened by default whenever the user clicks on a new .otf or .ttf font file. The user can view the font and install it, at which point the font will be copied to a centralized folder of user-installed fonts and be available for all apps to use.{{Cite book |last=Miser |first=Brad |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ca03gejbP2AC |title=Apple Mac OSX Leopard in Depth |date=2008 |publisher=Que Publishing |isbn=978-0-273-72158-1 |pages=214–225 |language=en}}
It can be used to browse all installed fonts. The user can view the list of fonts and see their alphabets, their complete repertoire of characters, and how they set a sample text of the user's choice.
The program allows users to:{{Cite book |last=Pogue |first=David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GYP7MAxi_oMC |title=Mac OS X Leopard: The Missing Manual |date=2007-12-07 |publisher=O'Reilly Media, Inc. |isbn=978-0-596-55456-9 |pages=558–566 |language=en |author-link=David Pogue}}
- Group fonts into collections, which can then be used in all Cocoa programs
- View details of fonts, such as the designer's name
- Activate and deactivate individual fonts or collections
- Check the data integrity of font files
- Export font collections for use on another computer
It does not feature any editing tools, even for changing font properties. This means that it cannot be used to rename, merge, or split up fonts or to redesign or modify fonts by (for example) changing kerning rules or exporting small capitals into a separate style.{{fact|date=November 2023}}
History
Until 2007, Apple's Font Book faced some criticism for its inability to validate and auto-activate fonts.{{Cite web |url=http://homepage.mac.com/macdrben/blogwavestudio/LH20041002162415/LHA20041024180549/index.html |title=Review - Apple's Font Book |access-date=2008-02-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071009231805/http://homepage.mac.com/macdrben/blogwavestudio/LH20041002162415/LHA20041024180549/index.html |archive-date=2007-10-09 |url-status=dead |first=Benjamin |last=Levisay |date=2004-10-24 }}
These features were added to Font Book with the release of Mac OS X Leopard on October 26, 2007.{{cite web |url=https://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html#fonts |title=Leopard's 300+ new features - Fonts |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016170507/http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html#fonts |archivedate=2007-10-16 |author=Apple |date=2007 }}
References
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External links
- [https://support.apple.com/guide/font-book/welcome/mac Apple's Font Book user guide]
- [http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304764 Font Book 101 from Apple] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080209000014/http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304764 |date=February 9, 2008 }}
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