Choose Fonts

Since Time Immemorial (that is, since January 1984), you have been able to use multiple fonts in documents on a Mac. You can still do that, and these days you can use many more fonts. But, also as it has been since Time Immemorial, you are limited to the fonts available on your system, and that limitation has interesting consequences now that documents are likely to be opened on multiple devices via iCloud.

Here’s an overview of how the Pages apps handle fonts:

  • On a Mac: You can use any font installed on your Mac, and you have an array of tools for adjusting a font’s appearance (for example, ...

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