Hi. When I am in Mail, and typing an email, I will sometimes want to change my font. When I select the font pull-down, it lists about 100 fonts on my Mac. Unfortunately, the font names are all listed in the same font, not in the font they represent. Is there anyway to have font names display in the font they are representing? Thanks.
I know it would be handy to see the actual font appearance in the Mail compose font selector, but the alternative way to see how the font appears is to press ⌘+T to toggle Show Fonts. On the left of that Font's panel toolbar is a gear icon and on its menu is a Show Preview menu item. This opens a new panel on the Font tool that shows the font appearance. This setting does not alter the font menu in the composition. Press
I know it would be handy to see the actual font appearance in the Mail compose font selector, but the alternative way to see how the font appears is to press ⌘+T to toggle Show Fonts. On the left of that Font's panel toolbar is a gear icon and on its menu is a Show Preview menu item. This opens a new panel on the Font tool that shows the font appearance. This setting does not alter the font menu in the composition. Press
Apple does present visual font information in the Pages, Numbers, and Keynote font menus, but not in Apple Mail. As a fellow user, I cannot answer internal Apple product team design decisions.
You can send feedback directly to the Mail product team about this issue, but bear in mind their goal is not to imitate Microsoft either.
So there is this app called Font Book on your Mac, which you can access each available font and see what they look like. You can find it in the applications folder in Finder
Thanks for your feedback. Yes, Font Book will show a preview of the font, if you click on the font--very time-consuming, if you are looking for a certain style of font. It's a shame that Apple does not list fonts so that each font name is displayed in the font, itself.
Like this...
Thanks for your ⌘+T suggestion.
I wonder why Apple does not display fonts like this...
Would be nice to have fonts displayed like this...
how to see font names in the font?
