Customizing fonts

The Select Font dialog box allows you to customize the font of certain kinds of text; for example, you can use this dialog box to customize the font that appears in viewport annotations. A similar dialog box is used to customize the font of the Visualization module labels and titles.

Related Topics
Customizing viewport annotations
Setting the label font

Context:

The Select Font dialog box allows you to specify and preview the following:

  • Proportional or fixed fonts.

  • The font family.

  • The font size, in points.

  • Regular, bold, or italic font.

The available options vary depending on which fonts are installed on your system.

  1. Display the Select Font dialog box for the text that you want to customize. For more information, see the following sections:

  2. Select the desired font and properties.

    A preview of the selected font appears in the Sample area of the Select Font dialog box.

  3. In the Apply To field of the Select Font dialog box, toggle on the items to which the selected font will apply. The Apply To field does not appear unless there are multiple items to which the font can apply.

  4. Click OK to accept your changes and to close the Select Font dialog box.