Sample text when installing font file on Mac

George Triantafyllakos

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

André G. Isaak

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

In FontCreator you can edit the Sample Text through Font Properties -> Extended.

George Triantafyllakos

Thank you both very much.

Craig Eliason

In Glyphs it looks like the custom parameter

sampleText

can set the string. 

Peter Constable

Q: Is anyone ever providing Name ID 19 in multiple languages?

André Simard

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

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

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.