You can also see recently used fonts, by the way, under the Type menu. And now, as I use more fonts, then this top part, remember we have to scroll all the way up to the top to see the recently used fonts, will become more useful to me. And then, Sort Recent Font List Alphabetically, which I find more useful than chronological. Number of Recent Fonts to Display, I might want to have 30 recent fonts. Under Font Preview Size, set it to be medium. Go all the way down to Preferences, and go to Type. They're not in chronological order and actually the default is to show them in chronological order of the last time that you used them. Right now, they are in alphabetical order. So, even if you're not on CC yet and you don't have the ability to create favorite fonts, chances are that your recently used fonts are your favorite fonts, right? So just scroll all the way to the top and then that's where you'll see them grouped up here. The group at the very top shows your recently used fonts. In Preferences, it will give us control over this group up here. It would be really cool if we could change the word sample to something else. So, the font preview is this word sample over here. Couple features that I think that you may not realize have been in, InDesign for awhile are recently used fonts and the usage of the font preview. And here are my go-to fonts that I use all the time.
And I know I want to change it to one of my favorite fonts, so I'll jump over here, and press the down arrow, and turn on show favorite fonts only. So, let's say, for example, that I am working with this type, and I want to change the font. And then if you want to only chose from favorite fonts, you could turn that on. And if you like a certain font, you can just click it, and then that becomes one of your favorite fonts. Now you'll see stars next to every single face. The only time that you can see favorite fonts is if the search field up here is empty. If I located a font by using the find command, I can't make it a favorite font, so that's kind of obnoxious. Now, they haven't quite brought it to what I would like it to be. Another good feature about InDesign CC is that you have this favorite fonts feature. So if you typed condensed light, it would show you the same ones, so you don't have to worry about which order those go in. And by the way, I noticed that you could do it, in reverse too. And then if you type, condensed, now I just have Abadi, American Typewriter, and Avenir, have light condensed. So, if you type in, light, that's really nice, a way to see all of your fonts that have a light version of them. I'm not going to do that, but one thing I did use today, in fact, was I was looking for a light condensed font. So, if I wanted to search for every bold font that I had, which would be kind of insane, but I could just type bold, and In Design will list all of the bold fonts. Another thing is notice that they are also including the styles in this drop down menu.
#RIGHTFONT AUTOMATIC FONT ACTIVATION PRO#
So if I wanted to search for myriad, if I typed yr, suddenly it jumps right to myriad pro condensed. Now, in earlier versions, you could always type the first few letters, but now, you can type any letters that appear anywhere in there. You see this? If you want to search for a font, you can just start typing any letters in the font name.
But one of my favorite things that they've added to CC is this little search field up here. And some of the tips that I'll mention also have to do with earlier versions of InDesign. I want to talk about some new ways in InDesign CC that you can use to quickly locate your fonts. Here in InDesign I'm going to click on the drop down menu for the fonts. If you're like me, you have thousands of fonts loaded at any one time, whether you're using a font management program or not.
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