Substitute one font family for another
Piotr Strębski
strebski@o2.pl 2016

# Substitution

Font Manager allows you to substitute one font family for another.

# To add a substitute:

Open the Font Manager preferences dialog by clicking at the top of the window.

Select "Substitutions" from the sidebar

Click in the substitutions pane.

Enter the name of the font family you wish to set up a substitute for.

Click on the right.

Enter the name of the substitute family and select the priority level.

Repeat steps 3 – 6 as needed.

Click Save to write the configuration file when done.

# To remove a substitute:

Open the Font Manager preferences dialog by clicking at the top of the window.

Select "Substitutions" from the sidebar

Select the entry you wish to remove from the list.

Click in the substitutions pane.

Click Save to write the configuration file when done.

# To remove all substitutes:

Open the Font Manager preferences dialog by clicking at the top of the window.

Select "Substitutions" from the sidebar

Click Discard in the substitutions pane.

Fonts matching the target family are edited to prepend the list of preferred families before the matching family, append the acceptable families after the matching family and append the default families to the end of the family list.

While changes are applied immediately open applications may need to be restarted.