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Workflow: Preview Fonts in Finder [Leopard Only]

November 26, 2007 | Posted in Fonts | 33 Comments »

A very welcome new feature in Leopard is the ability to view fonts directly in the finder (Yay!). You can get a full-alphabet-preview in two places: Column view, and Quick Look. The rest of the views display an icon with the letters “Ag.” Hitting spacebar from any view will give you and alphabet preview (in Quick Look). No need to open Fontbook, or a 3rd party browser anymore whoohoo! Anything that saves a little time, and makes my life a little easier is worth a post. Hope it makes your life easier as well :)

Source: macosxhints

Click on the images for a larger view.

From Column view, click on the little preview arrow to reveal the alphabetic font preview. (I made my column wider for posting purposes).

Font icons display as “Ag.”

Hit the Spacebar from any view and Quick Look gives you an Alphabet preview of the font!

Tags: Finder, Fonts, Leopard, OS X

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33 Responses to “Workflow: Preview Fonts in Finder [Leopard Only]”

Maxime Nov 26, 07 at 1:48 pm

Youhou! I did’nt notice since then I installed Leopard! It’s really sweet and better to choose a font for a project!!!
Graphic boards Nov 26, 07 at 2:10 pm

nice post thanks
Yolaine Nov 26, 07 at 3:06 pm

wow… cool… can’t wait to get leopard…
Pierre Nov 26, 07 at 3:48 pm

Great! Dugg! ;)
eyali Nov 26, 07 at 4:53 pm

OMG!
Kevin Spear Nov 26, 07 at 6:03 pm

Yet another reason why I want Leopard really, really bad! Come on, Santa!
Alex Nov 26, 07 at 6:37 pm

this is huge, except it might get a little tiresome scrolling through each one when you have 4500 fonts.
chad Nov 27, 07 at 9:21 am

this is almost worth the purchase price alone.
trendsettr Nov 28, 07 at 4:47 am

No fair, Im stuck with vista.
::m Dec 3, 07 at 2:47 am

As an aside, how did you colour your application column blue – or is that a feature of Leopard too? :o)
kablo kanallari Dec 3, 07 at 8:39 am

its really good
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very good thanks…
Mad_Max Jan 8, 08 at 12:51 pm

Terrific!
Monzo Mar 13, 08 at 4:37 pm

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gelinlik Jun 7, 08 at 6:42 am

thanxx youu
socoduce Aug 13, 08 at 8:41 pm

Great… now what do you have for viewing fonts in Windows?
cep telefonu Sep 7, 08 at 1:03 am

thankss you
ARIS Oct 28, 08 at 11:54 am

THIS IS AWESOME!! Thanks!
mirc Nov 11, 08 at 4:33 pm

thanks adm?n?m saols
muhabbet Nov 11, 08 at 4:33 pm

thanks adm?n
mirc indir Nov 11, 08 at 4:34 pm

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mirc Nov 13, 08 at 1:29 pm

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izle Dec 1, 08 at 10:29 pm

Thanks.
Youtube Gir May 5, 09 at 11:19 am

thanks admin..
Thirteen May 22, 09 at 11:26 am

just hitting the spacebar is my fave shortcut… works with music too ;-)
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very interesting the first time such a meet

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