The Editing Window
       

The main window contains an editing area. It is a small area but should be big enough for anything you'd want to do with these fonts - menus, navbars etc. The window can be resized if you need more space.

For normal use, just type the text you need into the editing area, select it and give it a font and colour.

A status display at the bottom of the window shows the currently selected font and size or the functions of controls in the window as the cursor passes over them.
       

The Controls

Pop-up Font Menu

Lets you apply installed MiniFonts to the selected text. This also sets the correct size for the font automatically.
       

Font Size indicator

Shows the size of the selected text. Note: You can over-ride this manually by typing into the box. You would only do this if you wanted to set the height of a blank line to achieve line spacing or if you wanted to deliberately scale some text to, say, twice its normal size. Changing the size of MiniFonts text to anything other than the recommended size, or multiples, will cause distortion.
       

Bold Button
(Windows only)

Bold fonts do not show up in the font menu in Windows applications. Use the Bold button to access the Bold variants when appropriate. The Bold button is not visible on Macs because bold fonts are chosen from the font menu. eg Tenacity-Bold.
       

Text/Background Colour Picker

Clicking on the outer square brings up the background colour picker, which changes the page background to the chosen colour.

The inner square allows you to choose a colour for the selected text.

Background colours will show up in copied and pasted graphics and in exported image files but are not saved with text files.
       

The Guides

The guides in SimpleSetter are very important and don't work like the guides in other programs. Apart from being useful for aligning type visually, they also act as a cropping tool and have various behaviours that can be modified with the Shift key and Alt/Option Keys.

Alt-dragging on a vertical guide makes the other guide move in mirror fashion - used for centring text.

Shift-dragging on a vertical guide makes the other guide move in parallel - used if you want to maintain a setting width.