{"id":583,"date":"2007-09-26T13:42:11","date_gmt":"2007-09-26T04:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2007-09-26\/583"},"modified":"2007-09-26T13:42:11","modified_gmt":"2007-09-26T04:42:11","slug":"discovering-photoshop-internal-font-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2007-09-26\/583","title":{"rendered":"Discovering Photoshop Internal Font Names"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<p>When programming scripts for Photoshop, you sometimes need to know\nPhotoshop's internal name for <span class='nobr'>a font.<\/span> That name almost always differs from\nthe name presented in the drop-down list of fonts. For example, the internal name for the Arial font is\n&#8220;ArialMT.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>A simple way to find out the internal name of <span class='nobr'>a font<\/span> is to create <span class='nobr'>a\ntext<\/span> layer using the font, then invoking this <a style='font-weight:bold'\nhref=\"\/Show-Font-Name.jsx\">Show Font Name.jsx<\/a>\nscript from within Photoshop. When executed, an alert will pop up showing\nthe internal name of the font.<\/p>\n\n<p>If you don't know how to install <span class='nobr'>a Photoshop<\/span> <b>jsx<\/b> file, mimic the\ninstall instructions provided on the page for my <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/photo-tech\/calendar\/\">calendar-building\nscript<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When programming scripts for Photoshop, you sometimes need to know Photoshop's internal name for a font. That name almost always differs from the name presented in the drop-down list of fonts. For example, the internal name for the Arial font is \"ArialMT.\"<\/p> <p>A simple way to find out the internal name of a font is to create a text layer using the font, then invoking this Show Font Name.jsx script from within Photoshop. When executed, an alert will pop up showing the internal name of the font.<\/p> <p>If you don't know how to install a Photoshop <b>jsx<\/b> file, mimic the [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}