Fonts I: the families and their styles

Welcome to my first post about fonts, the indispensable Tyepface-y things, you to need decisions about everyday (the one for this doc; the one for, the e-Mail; for whom, how large, how small, how readable,... etc..).

Today, we go over some basics about fonts and then, in the next post or two, we the difference between the different types of them in some of the more juicy topics such as where and how some other fonts (because you never have can be enough),, and even how to create your own font (to talk about, I recently read that schools in 41 States no longer italic handwriting teaching willbe.) How can that be? (My third degree, left-handed is scrawl, almost illegible, priceless!)

Nevertheless, we are talking today enter not write. Let's go font it up.

Traditionally, the terms "Writing" and "Font" separately used were, and were not the same. It was used to be that a script was of a printer or Publisher designed metal manufactured and put into a press. The script was the design appearance of the characters, while a font a certain typeface in a size, a style and a weight (Helvetica bold 10 point was a font and Helvetica bold italic 10 point was a different font). Printer-resident fonts change, every time, if they wanted to change the appearance of a Word.

Now, times have changed and we are talking here made not of type metal. These days, it is pretty sure of which assume that "Font" and "Writing" on the same mean - perhaps not for designers, but you and I, not designers who only want our work to do.

This picture shows four different fonts:

ArialFrench script MTLucida BrightCurlz MT

A font family is a collection of all the fonts in a font with different sizes, weights (such as bold), and kind is (such as italic). The image below shows some of the Arial font are members of the family in education.

ArialArial BlackArial NarrowArial rounded MT bold

Ah, style. Some of us have it. and some of us do not. (Of course, some of us who know, and some of us do not.) Fonts in this case are the owning; You all have style. And make like your daily choice between Gucci and gap, otherwise requires any text location.

 

BoldItalicUnderlineDouble highlighted (if you really mean it!)Strike-through

There are many other species such as such as small caps, lowercase and superscript. Sniff which Office version you use and try some of these things in the works.

I realize that this is all very easy (we must begin the Beguine, you know) and so in the next posts I'll talk about things such as where your fonts on your computer, such as more to obtain and install new fonts are stored, and some best practices.

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