User Guide

If you just want to build one family, you can quit now. To do
so, type “Command-q,” choose “Quit” from the File menu,
or simply click in the close box of Style Merger’s window.
If you want to create more families, you can leave Style
Merger running to make some more.
Things you should know about Style Merger
Style Merger won’t prevent you from choosing incorrect
faces for particular styles. For instance, you could be a
wise guy and tell Style Merger to use Nova-Bold for the
italic face. Your family will work just the way you set it up,
but it would be a little confusing. It could be called
a “dysfunctional family,” or one that boldly goes where no
italic has gone before.
Important: Please, do yourself a favor and always make
sure the fonts you use to build families with are not
installed. Always close any fonts installed with Suitcase,
Master Juggler, Font Porter or whatever you installed them
with; then build your family and reinstall your fonts. If you
are using Style Merger and notice that the little suitcase
icons change from capital “A’s” to “B’s”, that means that
the font you have just chosen was already installed. In
technical terms, you are hosed at this point, and you may
have to restart your Macintosh. If you have never heard of
Suitcase, or Master Juggler, or “installed fonts,” then don’t
worry; you most likely will not encounter this situation.
Never try to open fonts that are in your System Folder.
Adobe Type Reunion (ATR) compatibility
Style Merger builds a completely functional Macintosh font
family: there is only one entry in the font menu for the font,
and all the appropriate styles are referenced automatically
when different styles are applied to the font. This is the
recommended method for creating font families.
However, some people like to create font families that work
in conjunction with a product called Adobe Type
Reunion™, which makes your fonts display in the font menu
in a manner similar to the Adobe typefaces. Each of these
faces has an entry for each style which appears in a
hierarchical menu off of the font menu. For example, the
Fontographer User's Manual
8: Creating a Font Family Page #6