Nel Blog di Ken Bereskin, uno dei programmatori di Mac OS X, si leggono interessanti suggerimenti, con tanto di screenshot sulle feature più o meno nascoste del pannello font di Mac OS X. Possiamo agire in vari modi sulle dimensioni del carattere nonché visualizzare e personalizzare l'anteprima.
The system font panel is a very flexible user interface for selecting and managing
collection of fonts. Whenever I demo this to even seasoned Mac OS X users, they
are blown away by the flexibility. All Cocoa applications use the font panel
implicitly and with the Jaguar release, Carbon applications can add it to their
feature set. Here's a series of screen shots that show the flexibility of the
panel.