OS X Mountain Lion: Make more font sizes available in the Fonts window

Make more font sizes available in the Fonts window

You can add or remove font sizes from the Fonts window and change the maximum and minimum sizes available.

Note: If you don’t see some settings and options in the Fonts window, you can adjust the window size by dragging a corner of the window.

Add or remove font sizes

  1. Open an app, such as TextEdit, and choose Font from one of the menus. In TextEdit, choose Format > Font > Show Fonts.
  2. Open the Action pop-up menu (looks like a gear) in the lower-left corner of the Font panel and choose Edit Sizes.

    • To add a new size to the font size list, type the size in the New Size field and click Add (+).

    • To change the minimum and maximum values on the font size slider, type new values in the Max. and Min. fields.

    • To remove a size from the font size list, select it and click Delete (–).

  3. Click Done.

If you want to see what a font looks like as you adjust settings, open the Action pop-up menu (looks like a gear) in the lower-left corner of the Font panel and choose Show Preview.

Restore the original values in the font size list and slider

  1. Open an app, such as TextEdit, and choose Font from one of the menus. In TextEdit, choose Format > Font > Show Fonts.
  2. Open the Action pop-up menu (looks like a gear) in the lower-left corner of the Font panel, and choose Edit Sizes.
  3. Click Reset Sizes.