---
title: NSFontPanel
framework: appkit
role: symbol
role_heading: Class
path: appkit/nsfontpanel
---

# NSFontPanel

The Font panel—a user interface object that displays a list of available fonts, letting the user preview them and change the font used to display text.

## Declaration

```swift
class NSFontPanel
```

## Overview

Overview Actual changes to the font panel are made through conversion messages sent to the shared NSFontManager instance. There’s only one Font panel for each app.

## Topics

### Getting the Font Panel

- [shared](appkit/nsfontpanel/shared.md)
- [sharedFontPanelExists](appkit/nsfontpanel/sharedfontpanelexists.md)

### Enabling Font Changes

- [isEnabled](appkit/nsfontpanel/isenabled.md)
- [reloadDefaultFontFamilies()](appkit/nsfontpanel/reloaddefaultfontfamilies().md)

### Updating the Font Panel

- [setPanelFont(_:isMultiple:)](appkit/nsfontpanel/setpanelfont(_:ismultiple:).md)

### Converting Fonts

- [convert(_:)](appkit/nsfontpanel/convert(_:).md)

### Working in Modal Loops

- [worksWhenModal](appkit/nsfontpanel/workswhenmodal.md)

### Setting an Accessory View

- [accessoryView](appkit/nsfontpanel/accessoryview.md)

### Structures

- [NSFontPanel.ModeMask](appkit/nsfontpanel/modemask.md)

## Relationships

### Inherits From

- [NSPanel](appkit/nspanel.md)

### Conforms To

- [CVarArg](swift/cvararg.md)
- [CustomDebugStringConvertible](swift/customdebugstringconvertible.md)
- [CustomStringConvertible](swift/customstringconvertible.md)
- [Equatable](swift/equatable.md)
- [Hashable](swift/hashable.md)
- [NSAccessibilityElementProtocol](appkit/nsaccessibilityelementprotocol.md)
- [NSAccessibilityProtocol](appkit/nsaccessibilityprotocol.md)
- [NSAnimatablePropertyContainer](appkit/nsanimatablepropertycontainer.md)
- [NSAppearanceCustomization](appkit/nsappearancecustomization.md)
- [NSCoding](foundation/nscoding.md)
- [NSMenuItemValidation](appkit/nsmenuitemvalidation.md)
- [NSObjectProtocol](objectivec/nsobjectprotocol.md)
- [NSStandardKeyBindingResponding](appkit/nsstandardkeybindingresponding.md)
- [NSTouchBarProvider](appkit/nstouchbarprovider.md)
- [NSUserActivityRestoring](appkit/nsuseractivityrestoring.md)
- [NSUserInterfaceItemIdentification](appkit/nsuserinterfaceitemidentification.md)
- [NSUserInterfaceValidations](appkit/nsuserinterfacevalidations.md)
- [Sendable](swift/sendable.md)
- [SendableMetatype](swift/sendablemetatype.md)

## See Also

### Font Panels

- [NSFontPanel.ModeMask](appkit/nsfontpanel/modemask.md)
- [NSFontPanelValidation](appkit/nsfontpanelvalidation.md)
- [NSFontChanging](appkit/nsfontchanging.md)