ecblackiii wrote:
Three of those do not exist among the plethora of typefaces supported by MS Word.
And so many of Microsoft fonts look similar...
cyan
Loc: Northern NJ
jerryc41 wrote:
Most people erroneously call them fonts, but they are actually typefaces. A font includes the typeface, its size, and any other attributes. According to a famous designer, there are only six essential typefaces.
Garamond - looks smart
Bodoni - looks elegant
Century Expanded - very readable, required, used by the Supreme Court
Futura (1930s) - versatile
Times New Roman - developed for the NY Times magazine
Helvetica - the most popular typeface. There is a documentary about it.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=helvetica+documentaryMost people erroneously call them fonts, but they ... (
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I am probably the only one that likes Comic Sans MS.
I like Comic Sans!
There are so many additional typefaces available. You’re right, Jerry, it becomes annoying to try to use one that isn’t supported on the system you want to use it on. I have downloaded some for personal use though, especially calligraphy-type, and they are useful for personal use.
lnl wrote:
I like Comic Sans!
There are so many additional typefaces available. You’re right, Jerry, it becomes annoying to try to use one that isn’t supported on the system you want to use it on. I have downloaded some for personal use though, especially calligraphy-type, and they are useful for personal use.
Yup, I downloaded over a half dozen.
rlv567
Loc: Baguio City, Philippines
cyan wrote:
I am probably the only one that likes Comic Sans MS.
Not so! I used it for quite a while, and still do on occasion. I preferentially use Eras Bold ITC, Italic, now.
Loren - in Beautiful Baguio City
cyan
Loc: Northern NJ
Good! Another Comic Sans user!
The law firm I worked with pre-retirement, paralegal, was Book Antigua 12.
You might want to look a font from the American Printing House (APH) for the Blind. APHONT
I find it useful for early readers, public speakers, low light, and neighbors with vision difficulties.
Although this link says it if for Word, in Windows it can be put in the system fonts and called for any program that uses the fonts available on the system. Most font creators try to be OS independent, so I would be very surprised if it were not available on the many UNIX based OSs, and on APPLE.
Longshadow wrote:
Hahaha.
Office has at least 12 I can pick from.
I think there are more that 50 available on my system.
The bad part is that if one uses a font on a web page that is not part of the standard "font set" on computers,
the font must be put up on the server and referenced in the page code. I had to do that.
Same with documents. Everyone thinks all computers have/show the same fonts.
They don't.
Computers will "substitute" a font if it doesn't have the specified one available.
The ones in the list probably ARE available on all computers.
"Sleepy Hollow" is one that is not... But it's a neat font.
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Sleepy Hollow is hard to read .... IMO...
Stan
StanMac wrote:
Sleepy Hollow is hard to read .... IMO...
Stan
But it
looks neat!
Besides, I really liked the movie a lot!
I'm surprised we don't see
Trekker font a lot!
Longshadow wrote:
But it
looks neat!
Besides, I really liked the movie a lot!
I'm surprised we don't see
Trekker font a lot!
Look at Directive Four, Ethnocentric, and Orbitron, which are included in my version of Word. They have a similar look to a Star Trek font.
Stan
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