In Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, the Font Book and other font features are really cool. When it comes to fonts, I am strictly a junior user -- no fancy typesetting jobs for me. But I've had fun playing with the over-the-top (for me) wacky font features. Font Book lets you make little collections of your favorite fonts and has a slider that lets you zip through viewing different sizes of a font. The standard font panel, available in most apps that let you enter text, has a whole set of controls just for text shadows.
My favorite font feature is available in any app with a font panel or a "Special Characters" item in the Edit menu. There's a panel called Font Variation that shows how any character appears in every font of a font collection, or if you want, every font you have installed. So, if you'd like to pick out a really cool looking lowercase "i", you can see them all at once and choose the one you want.
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