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(See “ How to make use of typographic refinement in Pages and other macOS software.”)įonts hide many extras. You either need to use a design program with a view-all-characters option-like Adobe InDesign’s Glyphs viewer-or use the Typography option in the Fonts palette, accessible within Pages and many other apps. (A font here is a set of characters, or glyphs, in a given typeface and style packed into a font file.) Many typographic extras are hidden. The status bar at bottom shows you detailed information, including how to type it (if available) and what format to insert it in.Įven when adding Shift and/or Option, pressing keyboard keys only reveals a fraction of modern fonts’ characters. PopChar’s main view lets you select a font and then view its entire set of character organized in various ways.

You can adjust a given font’s viewing size individually if the default is too large or too small. And browse your installed typefaces to find the right fit for what you’re designing or producing. Click to insert it as plain text, rich text (at a specified size, even), or HTML. Hover over a letter to get more information. Examine the repertoire available in the font. When you click in a preferred corner of the screen, the utility pops out, giving you easy access to hundreds to tens of thousands of characters in a given font in its palette-like window. (Or even Ready, Set, Go!)įrom its earliest days, PopChar popped. Released in 1987 for System 5 and revamped as PopChar X for Mac OS X 10.2 in 2002, many current users weren’t born when some of us relied on PopChar as a critical part of our daily workflow in PageMaker, QuarkXPress, and InDesign. Few pieces of Mac software can claim the history of PopChar, a utility that makes it a click and a hover to see the appearance of individual characters in fonts installed on your Mac.

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