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Renaming Tags


The five tags used in the glyph overview panel can be renamed:

  1. From the Tools menu, open the Options dialogue
  2. On the Advanced tab, click on “Copy Data Files to User Data Folder”
  3. Then click on “Open User Data Folder”
  4. Open “tags.txt” in Notepad and edit each name to whatever you want, like the code shown below
  5. Save the file, and restart FontCreator to see the changes


;This file allows you to modify the names of the tag categories
;Type an Ampersand before the letter that you wish to use as an access key
;Restart FontCreator after modifying this file in order see the changes

[tags]
;Red
1=&To Do
;Orange
2=&Recently Added
;Green
3=&Done
;Fuchsia
4=&Colour
;Blue
5=Not in &WOFF

The Tags submenu will now look like this:


In FontCreator 64-bit, “tags.txt” is in the FontCreator installation folder in C:\Program Files\High-Logic FontCreator. You can still edit it, but you will need Admin permissions to modify it.