Photoshop Quick Tip : Bigger Font Previews

Thu, Jan 10, 2008

If you find youself squinting at the previews in the list of fonts in the font drop down menu, then help is at hand. In Photoshop CS2 and CS3, you can set the font preview size to anything from Small to Huge. Choose Edit > Preferences > Type and you’ll see the dialog box below.

Font Preview Size Preferences

In the drop down menu, choose the size you want for your font preview. In the illustration below you can see the default setting of medium font preview size (on the left) and the difference when I changed the setting to large. Much easier to see.

Font Preview Before and After

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5 Comments For This Post

rachel Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 10:35 pm

well.. i did this and my photoshop quit on me with an error. crap! i was excited too.

sal Says:
January 11th, 2008 at 1:56 am

Yippy, I am a happy photoshopper!!! My preferences are under the Photoshop drop down, but it worked awesome. No more squinting and quessing. Thanks!

Jennifer Says:
January 11th, 2008 at 6:00 am

Yikes ! Rachel, that doesn’t sound too good. What version of PS do you have? I think it’s only available in CS2 and CS3/

Sal, glad it helped.

AzAkers Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 5:40 am

My momentary elation, quickly faded to sullen brooding as I quickly fliped from IE to PS to apply my newfound ‘tip’ = only to discover that my failure to move into the new century by not upgrading past the original (now apparently archaic) CS.

After I came back and continued readding nto the comments I see that I am once again foiled by my frugality. heh

That’ll teach me – it’s high time I upgraded to CS2 or skipped completely on to CS3

Thanks for the tip anyways!

Jennifer Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 6:59 am

Hi Jayson, thanks for visiting.

Not to worry, I’ll try and put up a few tips that cover all the CS versions next time. Many of the fundamentals are the same from CS through to CS3.

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rachel Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
well.. i did this and my photoshop quit on me with an error. crap! i was excited too.
sal Says:
January 11th, 2008 at 1:56 am
Yippy, I am a happy photoshopper!!! My preferences are under the Photoshop drop down, but it worked awesome. No more squinting and quessing. Thanks!
Jennifer Says:
January 11th, 2008 at 6:00 am
Yikes ! Rachel, that doesn’t sound too good. What version of PS do you have? I think it’s only available in CS2 and CS3/

Sal, glad it helped.
AzAkers Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 5:40 am
My momentary elation, quickly faded to sullen brooding as I quickly fliped from IE to PS to apply my newfound ‘tip’ = only to discover that my failure to move into the new century by not upgrading past the original (now apparently archaic) CS.

After I came back and continued readding nto the comments I see that I am once again foiled by my frugality. heh

That’ll teach me – it’s high time I upgraded to CS2 or skipped completely on to CS3

Thanks for the tip anyways!
Jennifer Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 6:59 am
Hi Jayson, thanks for visiting.

Not to worry, I’ll try and put up a few tips that cover all the CS versions next time. Many of the fundamentals are the same from CS through to CS3.

Best Graphic Design Articles from January 2008 Says:
January 28th, 2008 at 6:04 am
[...] Photoshop Quick Tip: Bigger Font Previews Shows you how to make your font previews bigger in Photoshop, something that is quite handy when choosing a font. A great article from Jennifer from Laughing Lion Design. [...]

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