I’m finding I constantly have to re-open the Fonts box when it comes to labelling my drawings. I feel it should just be a lockable palette like all the others (using SU 26 on OSX Tahoe).
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well, bad news, you can’t, because it’s mac os’s palette. so it won’t cooperate with the rest. it’s like the material panel in sketchup. even worse, when apple decides to change stuff in the palette, well it kinda breaks it for us.
good news it, you don’t have to close it, you can keep it in a corner somewhere, even move it partially outside your screen.
other good news is, sketchup is moving to abandon cocoa (current UI tool) for QT (the one on PC). so we will end up having the same UI as on pc.
when ?
probably on a tuesday. can’t tell you which one though 
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Yup it’s a pain.
I have 8-10 samples of text just off the pasteboard that I can sample and apply to whatever I’m working on. It’s built into my templates. I only have to deal with the text pallet on a limited basis.
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In an active project I use the On Every Page layer and add text outside the page for easy access from any page.
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That is how I started but I did not like having to change layers - now my notes are already assigned the notes layer, dimensions the dimensions layer, etc.
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Thanks guys - makes sense that it’s an Apple thing. Shame that they can’t relinquish control so it sits within a Layout palette!
What exactly do you mean by this @bmike :
How does that mean in a practical sense? You can a template with just some text on a sheet layer - say title, notes, call outs etc. presized and then just copy them in?
I’ve done a similar thing as Mike except with some line styles. These are placed outside the paper space in the template. If I want to draw a dashed line that is 2pt thick with 1x scaling, I get the Line tool, select the eye dropper/pipette, and click on that line in my samples which changes the line style.
Do the same for text if you want. Make sample text boxes off to the side to sample when you need them. This can also be used for colors (text or drawing elements) and other style related things.
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See @DaveR post. I just make text, dimensions, leaders, colors, lines off to the side. Then sample or move+copy them onto the drawing area.
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