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Turn the Font Off and On

September 3, 2009 by Corey Barker Tip of the Day 1 Comment

Often, I echo Matt Kloskowski’s feeling that font preview is either loved or hated.  I find myself usually turning it off, and here’s why: I love fonts—lots of them.  I install fonts like there’s no tomorrow.  I’m assuming that this is going to catch up to me at one point or another, but I continue to troll sites to find more and more fonts.
As you install more and more fonts on your machine, you might notice that there could be a performance problem.  Because of this, we should go to Photoshop>Preferences>General (PC: Edit>Preferences>General) and turn off the Font Preview Size checkbox in the Type preferences.  You can also turn on the Font Preview Size there too, if you happen to like it. I’ll stay away from that argument now.

Posted by Corey Barker

Corey is the newest education and curriculum developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. He is a graduate of the Ringling School of Art & Design in Sarasota, Fl, with a degree in Illustration. Over the years, Corey has worked as a graphic artist in a variety of disciplines such as illustration, commercial design, large format printing, motion graphics, web design and photography. His expertise in Photoshop and Illustrator have earned him numerous awards in illustration, graphic design and photography. Using Photoshop since Version 2, his expertise and creativity have evolved exponentially with every new version, which makes Corey an invaluable addition to the NAPP team.

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