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yeah, I remember the Lorem ipsum article from where it came up a good while ago (probably on another forum, tho). Since I took Spanish instead of Latin, I'm not really qualified to talk about it...

I found that at least with Windows 2000, about 1,000 fonts is how many you can load at one time. After that, it gets....strange... Could be a function of memory, though.

As most of us know, there are zillions (1.0 times 10^ridiculous.. of fonts for free out there. I tend to hang with Scriptorium for the really fancy ones, but there's any number of other sites.

Used to have a thing about fonts (even have Corel 8, which you were supposed to be able to create your own), but i've toned it down some...

If anyone is interested, this site discusses how to change the default fonts of the Command Prompt in Windows (It works in XP or Vista, even if that author is specifically discussing a Vista font that he wanted to use.)

Command Prompt Font

Is anyone here familiar with the old Core Fonts for the Web Standard? I wanted to ask a few questions about it, and I was curious about some things about web fonts. I am thinking of changing the default fonts for the browser (Arial, Times New Roman, and Courier New) and was wondering if anyone had any suggestions. I was thinking Georgia for the default serif font, due to its screen readability. Thanks!

Thanks for all the posts... I'm interested, but know very little about fonts... glad to learn something.

I particularly like Apple Chancery:

If you have any questions at all, I'm sure that I or someone else here would be very glad to answer!

I am actually not familiar with that font...Apple is part of the name? Was a font designed for the MacOS?

Such Typeface are very fine for headlines or short text, but I would use those for anything longer.

I agree... I use it on my webpage for links to various areas, and on my cd labels.

Here are some recommendations for a smarter alternative to Arial and Times New Roman.

I'm surprised that the typefaces developed for American newspapers during the early 20th century, such as Excelsior or Corona, are not widely used today like Times Roman is. These typefaces were specially designed for high legibility.

I particularly like News Gothic and Bell Centennial Name and Number as sans-serif fonts. They look much better than Arial.

Eurostile/Square721 bold condensed makes very eye catching headlines and labels.

I have all these fonts installed on my computer.

when i write my stories i write in times new roman, it feels better to WRITE with it

then, when its finished, i change it to bookman old style

I type in some typewriter style font. OO creatively calls it 'Typewriter', I do believe.

I've been looking for a good way to make my own font, the tools I've found so far crap out on a pretty regular basis. I made a character set, mainly for a story I was writing long ago, and I'd LOVE to use it.

I'm actually kind of glad Linux doesn't use TNR. It's way to overplayed.

May I explain something - neither OpenOffice, nor "Linux" does care about any fonts at all. The font under a Linux-System are typically stored in



where you find subdirectories with different groups of fonts and where you can add new ones.

Hey Arcona, thanks for the link! I hope you do not mind if I make some comments to what you had said. Gentium reads to be a free font, so I am not concerned of it. However, those Bitstream clones are lega, correct? I am sorry to be so concerned - I hope I am not being mean in any way I've never seen a place to download Bell Centennial. Interestingly enough, the font it replaced, Bell Gothic, I have seen quite often used for 'underground' book publication and that kind of thing. I've always found Eurostile to be a nice futuristic font. By the way, on a lot of websites, I have found an anti-Arial sentiment. I never got why everyone hated it so much - it isn't really a clone of Helvetica, and even if it was, there are more bare faced look a-likes to Hevletica than Arial. I've actually seen some of those discussions of Arial get quite political and even go so far as to criticize the United States and a bunch of other very very silly connections people make with it. That being said, I am not at all trying to start a flame war, or flame anyone at all. Anyone else like Arial Rounded? Its, oddly enough, available with Windows as part of the Gulim East Asian font, designed for writing Korean Hangul (But it also has Roman Characters, written in Arial Rounded, Chinese Traditional/Kanji characters, Japanese Hiragana, and Japanese Katakana.) Also, I was wondering if, while we are on the topic of smarter alternatives to common fonts like Times New Roman and Arial, if anyone knows some smarter monospaced alternatives. Anyone have any opinion on Andale Mono, good or bad, by the way?

Well, I think typeface designs aren't copyrightable in the states, so clones should be fine as long as they're not pirated copies.

I have seen Arial Round in some Windows setup too, just never figured out where it came from. Do you mean that it's installed if I enable the East Asian language option?

Anyone tried the Vista C-fonts. I think they are quite nice.

United States laws, and the laws of many nations, regarding typefaces are very complicated. In the USA, essentially, once can copyright the name of a typeface and can copyright a trade mark. One cannot, however, actually copyrigh a typeface itself.

If you enable the East Asian option, you'll install a font called Gulim, which is technically used for writing Korean Hangul characters, though it also includes a full set of Roman, Chinese Traditional/Japanese Kanji, Japanese Hiragana, and Japanese Katakana characters. The Roman Characters in Gulim are in Arial Rounded, so if you write in Gulim like any other font you'd be getting Arial Rounded.

The owner of the Asperger Home Education Forum has several hard to find typefaces in his collection in the form of .ttf files. He definitely has Bell Centennial.

I should ask him then?

I do not at all mean to suggest that this is spamming. I am only double posting because I did not wish to clutter the forums with any further threads. I hope that is acceptable. I had a few questions about the font Futura. First off, any opinions any one? I know we were talking about sans serif fonts before, and usable ones. I was also wondering if Century Gothic, which itself is a look-a-like of the font Twentieth Century, is a Futura look-a-like. I read that the creator of Futura, Paul Renner, was very much into the rules of book printing. Is this to suggest there have been books published in Futura? What do you guys think of it as a screen font?

By the way, while we are on the topic of smarter alternatives, like we were with Times Roman and Arial/Helvetica, what's a smarter monospaced alternative? Anything for Courier? That being said, Courier is a great font that's stood the test of time, and I've actually been seeing it a lot lately in advertisements and such whenever a very serious look is needed. Its rather journalist looking, for obvious reasons.

Did I tell the story yet about how the US State Department replaced Courier with Times Roman? I am sorry if I am repeating myself.