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Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: Font Book 3, Emoji support

Apple has enhanced its Font Book app for managing installed font faces, and has added a new Emoji font commonly used in chat to express ideograms.

Font Book 3.0 now provides more flexible displays of the character glyphs supplied by a particular font face, with the standard alphabetical list augmented with a display of every glyph used in the font, and an information panel that lists its full metadata.

The information panel (below) presents every supported language, the version, its installed location, a description of the font, its copyright and trademark data, the number of glyphs supplied, whether it is embeddable, enabled, copy protected or installed as a duplicate.

Duplicate font files are flagged with a warning icon, and can be fixed automatically or resolved manually from a comparison drop down sheet (below).

The new Apple Color Emoji font supplies 502 glyphs in a TrueType font. Apple previously added emoticon support in iOS within Japanese input, which replaced typed characters with suggested faces created from Roman characters. The new move in Lion suggests company is likely to add actual Emoji input to the iOS as well.



21 Comments

ireland 19 Years · 17437 comments

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Originally Posted by AppleInsider

The new move in Lion suggests company is likely to add actual Emoji input to the iOS as well.

Who writes this stuff? Let's all just jump to conclusions so.

thenewperson 15 Years · 96 comments

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ireland

Who writes this stuff? Let's all just jump to conclusions so.

I don't get what's wrong with what was written.

ivlad 18 Years · 742 comments

OMG! I though Apple has forgotten Font Book and their designer base. A good change.

jonamac 15 Years · 388 comments

Glad to see this getting attention. I've run into the duplicate font problem in Snow Leopard and it is a little clunky to resolve at the moment.

Not mad about emoji, but I'm glad those that are are getting it I suppose. Not sure it's so outrageous a conclusion to jump to that it will get iOS support...it has made an appearance in the past after all.

davebarnes 20 Years · 378 comments

Does this manage all the fonts in Adobe CS?
Does this manage all the fonts in MS Office?
If not, then, whatever.