Sample text when installing font file on Mac

George Triantafyllakos
George Triantafyllakos Posts: 20
in Font Technology
Quick question: I see that some font files show a custom preview text (instead of the regular A-Z, a-z and 0-9) when you open and install them using FontBook on Mac (see attached image for example). How can I change this text on a font file?




Thanks in advance
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  • André G. Isaak
    André G. Isaak Posts: 632
    Name ID# 19 = Sample Text

    In FontLab 5 you can add this namestring under Font Info->Names->Additional OpenType Names.

    For other software, you'd have to check the manual.

    André
  • Erwin Denissen
    Erwin Denissen Posts: 300
    In FontCreator you can edit the Sample Text through Font Properties -> Extended.


  • George Triantafyllakos
    George Triantafyllakos Posts: 20
    Thank you both very much.
  • Craig Eliason
    Craig Eliason Posts: 1,436
    In Glyphs it looks like the custom parameter 
    sampleText
    can set the string. 
  • Peter Constable
    Peter Constable Posts: 161
    Q: Is anyone ever providing Name ID 19 in multiple languages?
  • André Simard
    André Simard Posts: 186
    Peter Constable said:
    Q: Is anyone ever providing Name ID 19 in multiple languages?
    I even don't know about this feature.
  • LeMo aka PatternMan aka Frank E Blokland
    LeMo aka PatternMan aka Frank E Blokland Posts: 723
    edited March 2018
    Alternatively, in case you would like to add ID19 to a font without generating it again, would like to alter or add any other entries in the naming tables, DTL OTMaster could be very useful, I reckon. The current retail version does not support batch processing of naming tables in multiple fonts, but the one Jürgen Willrodt and I will demonstrate at the upcoming TYPO Labs conference does this:

    https://youtu.be/EG_IwlWccFk.



    The new OTM edition will most probably be released autumn 2018. It also supports CFF2 now and has the latest AFDKO under the bonnet. Those who purchase version 6 this year from March on, will get the update to the new edition for free.
  • Lukas Schneider
    Lukas Schneider Posts: 41
    OTMaster is a great tool. I am using it for quite a while now and I really don't want to miss it anymore, honestly. To see my name here in ID9 next to these famous type designers made my day.

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