Appearance inspector

The controls in this inspector will change the style of whatever is currently selected in the outline or in the styles palette.
colorColor
Click the Text Color well to select a color for the selected text.
Click the Background well to select a color for the background of the selection. If you would like to use an image as a background instead, click the Image... button and browse your disk for the image file.
fontFont
Click the Set... button next to Face to bring up Mac OS X's font panel, which lets you set the font face and other font attributes.
Choose from the Weight pop-up menu to set the thinness or boldness of text.
Select the Italic checkbox to use the italic version of a font.
Enter a number (of points) in the Size field, or use the up and down buttons to make text bigger or smaller.
underlineUnderline
Underline
Select the underline style you would like from the Underline pop-up menu.
Selecting the By Word checkbox will underline only visible characters, not whitespace.
Select the underline dot-and-dash pattern you would like from the Pattern pop-up menu.
Click the color well to bring up the color panel for choosing an underline color.
Strikethrough
Select the strikethrough style you would like from the Strikethrough pop-up menu.
Selecting the By Word checkbox will strikethrough only visible characters, not whitespace.
Select the strikethrough dot-and-dash pattern you would like from the Pattern pop-up menu.
Click the color well to bring up the color panel for choosing a strikethrough color.
outlineText Border
Enter a number (of pixels) in the Border field, or use the up and down buttons to make the text border thicker or thinner.
Click the color well to show the color panel for selecting a border color.
shadowShadow
Click the color well to show the color panel for choosing a shadow color (and transparency).
Move the slider left or right to apply less or more blur to the shadow.
Drag the cross around in the well to change the shadow offset, or enter an x/y offset in the text fields.
advancedAdvanced
Select the Kerning checkbox and enter a number or use the up and down buttons to increase or decrease the space between characters.
Enter a number in the Obliqueness field or use the up and down buttons to slant characters; note that you can use decimal values.
Enter a number in the Expansion field or use the up and down buttons to make characters wider or narrower. You can also use decimal values here.
Enter a number in the Superscript field or use the up and down buttons to raise or lower characters' superscript level.
Enter a number in the Baseline field or use the up and down buttons to adjust characters' vertical position.
The Ligatures buttons control when the text system is allowed to create ligatures from the text, when using fonts that support ligatures.