Hey there fellow scrappers!  Do you love collecting fonts as much as I do?  I LOVE fonts.  I can’t get enough of them.  I don’t know what it is!  They are SO FUN and there are so many great free fonts that I just can’t help myself.  And when I find one that I love, I have a tendency to get on a roll and download a whole slew of them before I can bring myself to do anything else!

So, what’s the problem?  Well, I download all of these great fonts, but then I don’t use them!  Why?  Because I’ve gotten comfortable with a few favorites.  Plus, I can’t see the sample image in my font display.  It’s so small!  So guess what?  You can change the size of your font sample display!  Now when you go to choose a font, you can actually see what fonts you are looking at!

Here’s a screenshot of my font display currently:

That’s pretty tiny.  You can see by looking at it that you could have a hard time really getting a good idea of what a font will look like in your work.  So let’s make that display bigger so that you can actually see those adorable samples!

It’s super simple to do!  Here’s how:

I’m working in Photoshop CS5, so I’ll give you instructions and examples using my program, but I’ll fill you in if you’re working in CS6 or CC as well!

FIRST:

Go to EDIT>PREFERENCES>TYPE just as you can see in the image above.

You’ll see the following display options:

Click the drop down arrow on the font preview size and change it to medium, large, extra large or huge, depending on your preference!  Here are my sample views when I select HUGE.

See how much easier it is to view those samples?  I may actually get some use out of them now!  So change your display so that you can see your fonts, too!

CS6 and CC users:

Instead of going to EDIT>PREFERENCES>TYPE, CS6 now has a TYPE menu all on it’s own.  Select TYPE>FONT PREVIEW SIZE and then select your font display size from there!

I hope you found this simple tip easy to follow, and useful, too!  Now get to scrapping so you can use some of those great forgotten fonts you downloaded ages ago!