2021

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Applying a font
To apply a font to selected text, do one of the following things:
Choose 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.
Yours most recently used fonts display at the top of any font list. Specify the
number of recently used fonts you want to be displayed in Preferences >
Application > Fonts. To turn this feature off, specify a 0.
Font previews
(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.
Applying font styles
In QuarkXPress 2018, the font style user interface was enhanced. Now, there was a
separate font family and font style menu on both Win and Mac. The user was able
to choose the desired font styles from the font style menu. The Plain, Bold, Italic
buttons were not removed in order to retain the legacy behavior. Furthermore, the
buttons were mapped to the font styles (i.e. the buttons indicated the font faces).
On selecting a font style, its corresponding font face/ button would be selected. On
clicking the button, a font style corresponding to the font face would be selected
from the font style menu.
But, many of the font families had more than a single font style which mapped to
the same font face like Bold, SemiBold, Condensed Bold, Heavy, Black font styles
which map to Bold. In such cases, if the user clicked the bold button to apply bold
styling, there was no standard mechanism to identify which of the bold face font
styles should be selected. Likewise, on clicking on the Bold button to remove bold
styling, there was no standard mechanism to identify which of the plain face font
styles should be selected. This behavior created a lot of confusion for the users.
It was not possible to add buttons for each of the font styles as the font families
could have numerous font styles (Example: The Kepler Std font family has 168 font
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