As a web designer, I really appreciate how beautiful type looks when rendered in a browser in OS X. However, there are times when you want to create aliased text for use in web graphics. I used to use BBEdit for this, but oddly enough, the Terminal is an even better tool for this purpose.
To set type in the Terminal, open a terminal window and type a line of text without hitting return. Then click on the Terminal menu and select window settings to bring up the Terminal Inspector. Select Display in the Inspector pop-up menu. Turn anti-aliasing off if it's on. Then click the Set Font button to bring up the standard font panel.
Now you can change the font of the text you entered on the fly, and see the results immediately. You can even change the character spacing on the fly! Nice stuff.
Once you've got it the way you like, it take a screen shot (Command Shift 4) and then drag the resulting PDF from the desktop to your preferred image editor.
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