# PhotoshopElements

# Choose a font family and style

A font is a set of characters—letters, numbers, or symbols—that share a common weight, width, and style. When you select a font, you can select the font family (for example, Arial) and its type style independently. A type style is a variant version of an individual font in the font family (for example, regular, bold, or italic). The range of available type styles varies with each font.

If a font doesn’t include the style you want, you can apply faux (fake) versions of bold and italic. A faux font is a computer-generated version of a font that approximates an alternative typeface design, used only if there is no corresponding style for a given font.

1. If you’re changing the existing text, select one or more characters whose font you want to change. To change the font of all characters in a layer, select the text layer in the Layers palette, and then use the buttons and menus in the options bar to change the font type, style, size, alignment, and color.
2. In the options bar, choose a font family from the Font Family pop‑up menu.
3. Do one of the following:

   - Choose a font style from the Font Style pop‑up menu in the options bar.

   - If the font family you chose does not include a bold or italic style, click the Faux Bold button , Faux Italic button , or both; then click OK.

     Note: The type you enter gets its color from the current foreground color; however, you can change the type color before or after you enter text. When editing existing text layers, you can change the color of individual characters or all type in a layer.

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