Not sure you need a special font for this. Shadows are just another
standard font effect like bold or underline. For example, in text edit
you can type some text and then do a select all. Then choose
Format->Font->Show Font from the menu or just hit command-T. The tricky
bit is that the font box doesn't always appear wide enough to house all
the options and so it hides the lesser used ones. To fix this find the
Zoom control in the window chrome and action that to make the Fonts
window bigger. Then you'll discover text shadow is a checkbox right
after the document color button and a 'dimmed image'.
There are more controls after that. First will be three more dimmed
images followed by a 'shadow angle circular slider' which sets which
direction the shadow is to be cast. 50% is where the shadow is south of
the text, 0% is north of the text, 25% is east of the text and 75% is
west. You can pick anything inbetween so to have the shadow to the
southeast you would want about 37%. After that control is the same
information in degrees. Its a little odd because you can still arrow to
adjust the value but it will only read off the % as you adjust and
you'll have to VO left and right to have it read the degrees again. Same
kind of thing but 180 degrees is west and 360 or 0 degrees is east.
Anyway, once your shadow is on and you've picked the angle you can VO
right to set the opacity, blur and offset sliders. This is where I'm not
clear what the normal values are since I've now played with everything.
I suspect the initial opacity is 33%, blur is 0% and offset is about 15%
(mine says 14.3%).
One other annoying thing is that the font menu is one of those 'not
really a window' windows so if you command tilde away to go back to the
document you can't command tilde back to the font window. You either
have to do VO-F2 twice to pick it again from the window chooser or
command-T twice, once to hide it and once to open and move focus to it.
The second solution though faster to type will not put focus back where
you left it since the window was closed and re-opened.
Hope this helps.
CB
On 4/23/13 11:42 AM, Red.Falcon wrote:
OK I'm not familiar with font names and do not know if this is available and
I'll try my best to describe it!
The font I wish to find when looked at visually looks like the letters stand
out from the page so the letters have a shadow but have no clue what name that
font will have if it even exist's!
Any help welcome!
Colin
--
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"MacVisionaries" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email
to [email protected].
To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
