Fonts: Travel and tails - best practices

Now that you understand the basics of fonts, we take a crack on some basic font tags and practices:

How make sure your fonts travel with YouPrint or screen: select the correct font for the JobConsider your audience: notes to the go overboard

If you install new fonts, will you work each font only with the computer, it installed have. If you want to Office documents with other people (why all this goodness for you keep?) or use, or view your documents on a different computer, not the same way on the other computer could be shown to the new fonts that you have so carefully selected, so that you (and your audience) bitter and confused.

What is the fix? You can on the other computers being used, install the new font or if you are using a TrueType font in Word or PowerPoint - and you are most likely - you can use the font; embed this saves the characters with your document. Read information about how to embed fonts in PowerPoint: Doug Thomas blogged last July. (I blogged about limit your carry-on by embedding, also.)

Avoid security by font trouble on the road

If you have purchased your fancy fonts, you would better ensure that the company bought you out still omitted, you can use it only on a single computer.Not all TrueType fonts can be embedded (annoying license restrictions).Bottom line: Make sure you are foot here; the straight and narrow You want to court not in the font at the end.

Serifs are the stems of some letters in a certain font such as Times New Roman and Georgia the small "tails" at the end. Sans serif fonts have not the tails (kind of like my Australian Shepherd, although he somewhat dull). Examples are Arial and Tahoma:

If you try to figure out whether a serif or sans serif font select to check whether this category for an on screen order or a print job. I have a little about this and got some conflicting information, but what I have found that a serif font is easier to read in print, while a sans serif font is better, if read something on the computer. The theory is that helps that serifs are a visual guide or train, the reader's eye follow a one reading the type and groups of words, rather than individual words. And while this works great for print, it works also for the screen.

(As usual, can you vary the results.) I want to take your it hear.)

I make this short and sweet:

Cutesy fonts   Save for personal use, not business presentations or documents. (The rules change, however, is this document, or a slide show for a group of children.) (If your employees like children, you are on your own.)To limit how many font families that you are using,   If you think about the combination of multiple fonts in a single document, think different, that someone is going to read... presentation, or anything You again. If you are using too many fonts, it looks ugly, it is disruptive, and it helps your readers to hard work. In other words, too many fonts will spoil the broth. (If you don't know what a font family is, again, I wrote the first books post called fonts 1: the families and their styles.)

 

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