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If you style text as much as I do in TextEdit, Mail, and maybe a few other applications, you will probably find this useful. When viewing the Fonts palette (Command-T or Format -> Show Fonts) in certain apps (i.e. TextEdit), clicking on the "Recently Used" Collection will display specific fonts you have used recently -- including the size, color and style.

This can come in pretty handy if you consistently style text in particular ways across applications, and want to keep those styles in reach.

[robg adds: If you have a favorite style that you'd like to have permanently available, click on it in the list of recently used fonts, click the Gear icon at the lower left of the window, and choose Add to Favorites from the pop-up menu. You can't, however, add a specific font with its size and style info to a normal collection; it will add the entire family and lose the color/size info. And yes, this is a somewhat obvious hint, but the fact that it works across applications is quite handy, and not everyone may be aware that the Recently Used collection maintains specific size, color, and style info.]
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Re-use specific recently used font sizes and styles
Authored by: Djehuti on Dec 14, '04 10:45:43AM

Note that in order to see the Collections column that includes the Recently Used and Favorites collections, you must size the font palette large enough; at small sizes it disappears.



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Re-use specific recently used font sizes and styles
Authored by: Darklon on Dec 14, '04 12:49:07PM

You can also use an old Windoze trick too if you feel like it. The word processor that ships with Windoze is called Write (or it used to be). People used to complain about it not being able to store default fonts, sizes, etc, as well as more control over styles.

The answer was to create Write 'template' documents. Create a doc and call it 'Business', for example, type in some sample text and set all the formatting just the way you like it (and so you can see what it looks like), save the document and lock it (set it as a stationary pad on the Mac) so when you open it you can't re-save it and spoil your formatting.

Keep all the templates close by and create new ones as needed. It can be overwhelming if you create too many though. Descriptive names help manage them pretty well.



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