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Chapter 8: Setting type
Fonts
About fonts
A font is a complete set of characters—letters, numbers, and symbols—that share a common weight, width, and style,
such as 10-point Adobe Garamond® Bold.
Typefaces (often called type families or font families) are collections of fonts that share an overall appearance, and are
designed to be used together, such as Adobe Garamond.
A type style is avariant versionofanindividualfontinafont family.Typically,the Roman or Plain (the actual name
varies from family to family) member of a font family is the base font, which may include type styles such as regular,
bold, semibold, italic, and bold italic.
Installing fonts
You can make fonts available in InCopy by copying the font files into the Fonts folder inside the InCopy CS2 folder
on your hard drive. Note that fonts in the Fonts folder will be available only to InCopy. In Mac OS, you can even make
Windows fonts available by copying the font files into the Fonts folder.
For information on installing and activating fonts to be used in all applications, see your system documentation or
your font-manager documentation.
If two or more fonts are active in InCopy and use the same family name, but have different PostScript names, all fonts
are available in InCopy. Duplicate fonts are listed in the menus with their font technologies abbreviated in paren-
theses. For example, a Helvetica TrueType font appears as “Helvetica (TT),” a Helvetica PostScript Type 1 font
appears as “Helvetica (T1),” and a Helvetica OpenType font appears as “Helvetica (OTF).” If two fonts have the same
PostScript name and one includes a DFONT extension, the other font is used.
Applying fonts to text
When you specify a font family, you can select the font and its type style independently. When you change from one
font family to another, InCopy attempts to match the current style with the style available in the new font family. For
example, Arial® Bold would change to Times Bold when you change from Arial to Times.
When you apply a bold or italic style to type, InCopy applies the face specified by the font. In most cases, the specific
version of bold or italic is applied as expected. However, some fonts may apply a bold or italic variation that isn’t
exactly labeled bold or italic. For example, some font designers specify that when you apply bold to a font, the
semibold variation is applied.