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152 | A Guide to QuarkXPress 2018
A
pplying a font
T
o apply a font to selected text, do one of the following things:
C
hoose a font family and a font style from the Font drop-down menus in the
Home or Character tab of the Measurements palette.
Press Command+Option+Shift+M/Ctrl+Alt+Shift+M to jump directly to the font
field in the Measurements palette, enter the first few characters of the font
name until it is recognized, then press Return/Enter. Now select a font style from
the font style menu.
Your most recently used fonts display at the top of any font list. Specify the number
of recently used fonts you want displayed in Preferences > Application > Fonts. To
turn this feature off, specify a 0.
Font Listing
Font families and available font styles (Roman, Bold, etc.) are now listed in two
separate lists.
Previously, font styles of a font family were not accessible in the font menu on
Windows. Only Plain, Bold, Italics, and Bold Italics styles were accessible through
type style control on Windows. On macOS, all font styles of a font family were
made available in a separate subgroup in the font menu and font styles were
displayed with their full names.
All font styles of a font family are accessible in the font menus on Windows and
macOS. Font styles for a font family are sorted in the font style menu.
Font styles are also mapped to the type styles buttons P/B/ I in the palettes and
dialogs.
(Windows only):To display font previews in font menus, check the Show in Font
Menu box in the Fonts pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit
menu). Press Shift to temporarily override this preference.
(Mac OS X only): QuarkXPress automatically shows a preview of all typefaces in the
font pop-ups. Press Shift to temporarily override this preference.
Choosing a font size
You can apply font sizes from 2 to 16128 points. To apply a size to selected text, do
one of the following things:
Choose a size from the size menu in the Home or Character tab of the
Measurements palette
Click the arrow next to the current font size to display a list of point sizes, then
either choose a size from the list or enter a new point size.
Use the ticker controls with or without Shift or Alt/ Opt modifier to modify the
size
Use one of the keyboard commands below.