Lorem ipsum Text

August 30th, 2010

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lorem IpsumThere’s no require to change your browser or change your spectacles. If the over paragraph appears greek to you — you aren’t seeing things. It’s an example of greeked text used by desktop publishers and others for years. The Lorem ipsum text is a series of somewhat nonsense sentences derived from some real Latin components. It is also referred to as dummy text.
• utilize as placeholder text in templates.
• utilize during first page layout and font selection exercises when first starting a drawing     project   or when planning a newsletter when you don’t have the real copy available.
• utilize with a variety of fonts and layouts to get a sense for how each type choice and design will look with real text. The word lengths and letters are similar to the actual occurrence of letters in English which makes it good for approximating any text.
• utilize when creating examples of document designs for clients.
• utilize when creating type sample sheets or examples from which clients choose fonts for a          mission.
You could cut-n-paste the first paragraph of this article over and over, or download the Lorem ipsum text file I created which is simply 3 variations of the same paragraph repeated over and over. Right click (PC) or click/hold (Mac) on the link then save the plain text file to your hard drive. Or click on the link and choose “Save” in your browser. See the sidebar for more variations on the lorem ipsum placeholder text.

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What’s The Best Font To Use In My Website Design?

August 12th, 2010

Survey statistics These figures are the cumulative total of about 8 survey submissions per week since January 2003, 2633 total. The Windows applet-based survey was introduced on 21 April and is currently recording the frequency of 281 of the most common Windows fonts.

Font name Installed (%)
Microsoft Sans Serif 99.40% 99.40%
Arial Black 96.85% 96.85%
Franklin Gothic Medium 96.79% 96.79%
Palatino Linotype 96.33% 96.33%
Verdana 95.97% 95.97%
Comic Sans MS 95.44% 95.44%
Arial 95.40% 95.40%
Lucida Console 95.29% 95.29%
Courier New 95.14% 95.14%
Impact 95.02% 95.02%
Tahoma 94.95% 94.95%
Sylfaen 94.19% 94.19%
Trebuchet MS 93.66% 93.66%
Lucida Sans Unicode 91.57% 91.57%
Georgia 89.18% 89.18%
Arial Narrow 86.02% 86.02%
Century Gothic 83.63% 83.63%
Bookman Old Style 83.06% 83.06%
Times New Roman 82.80% 82.80%
Vrinda 82.57% 82.57%
Kartika 82.36% 82.36%
Book Antiqua 82.07% 82.07%
Monotype Corsiva 81.14% 81.14%
Garamond 76.72% 76.72%
Lucida Sans 75.65% 75.65%
Haettenschweiler 70.15% 70.15%
MS Reference Sans Serif 67.74% 67.74%
Bradley Hand ITC 59.12% 59.12%
Papyrus 58.92% 58.92%
French Script MT 58.32% 58.32%
Tempus Sans ITC 58.12% 58.12%
Edwardian Script ITC 57.11% 57.11%
Franklin Gothic Book 57.11% 57.11%
Franklin Gothic Medium Cond 56.91% 56.91%
Perpetua 56.91% 56.91%
Copperplate Gothic Light 56.71% 56.71%
Lucida Bright 56.71% 56.71%
Curlz MT 56.51% 56.51%
Engravers MT 56.31% 56.31%
Franklin Gothic Demi 56.31% 56.31%

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How To Create Your Own Fonts & Characters on Windows

July 27th, 2010

FontCreator – the most popular font editor!

With more than 2.5 million downloads, FontCreator is the world’s most popular font editing software. It has an intuitive interface that allows beginners to become productive immediately and it contains the powerful drawing tools that font designers require to create and edit high-quality TrueType and OpenType fonts.

When you create or open a font, FontCreator displays an overview of all available characters. You can simply add missing characters, or select an existing character, and modify its appearance. You can import (scanned) images of your signature or company logo, or make a font from your own handwriting. With FontCreator you can also fix character mappings, font names, kerning pairs, and at all times you can preview your fonts before installing.

In the Professional Edition, font validation features enable you to improve the quality of your fonts. Tools to join contours simplify and speed up the glyph design process. Powerful transformation scripts let you create hundreds of additional characters in seconds. FontCreator’s intelligent generation of composites allows you to automatically generate outlines for more than 2,200 (mostly accented) characters.

Whether you’re a type designer or graphic artist who needs a font creation powerhouse, or a hobbyist who wants to have fun creating new fonts, FontCreator has the tools you need.

What’s New

FontCreator version 6 contains many new features and improvements that will benefit type designers, font foundries, and power-users. The most impressive new feature that makes designing fonts so much faster is direct import of vector based images. This is the most reliable way to get illustrations made in vector based image editing software (like Adobe Illustrator) into FontCreator.

Key Features

  • Create and edit TrueType and OpenType fonts
  • Redesign existing characters
  • Add missing characters
  • Add up to 65,535 glyphs per font
  • Convert vector and bitmap images (e.g. a signature, logo or handwriting) to character outlines
  • Import vector files (EPS, AI, PDF, etc) and bitmap images (BMP, GIF, PNG, etc)
  • Edit and regenerate font names
  • Fix character mappings
  • Correct fonts that display incorrectly
  • Convert OpenType fonts to TrueType fonts
  • Generate, modify, import, export, and clean up kerning pairs
  • Add or correct over two thousand composite glyphs
  • Transform individual glyphs or an entire font (e.g. to make a bold version)
  • Extract TrueType fonts from TrueType Collections
  • Unicode support (including the private use area and supplementary planes)
  • All popular encodings and code pages supported (ANSI, ASCII, Unicode, Symbol, Big5, PRC, Wansung, etc)
  • Preview fonts before installing
  • Install fonts in Windows

System Requirements

  • Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003, 2000
  • 24 MB of free disk space

Our software works with Windows, but fonts created with FontCreator can also be used on Mac OS X and Linux.

User Manual

Check out the online user manual, and see how easy it is to use FontCreator. You can become productive – and creative – in minutes.

Comparison Chart

FontCreator is available in two editions. This comparison chart shows the differences between the Home and Professional Edition.

Purchase

Download the free trial version of FontCreator now, and see how quickly and easily you can create new fonts or modify existing ones. Then, you can buy the Home Edition for $79.00(US) and the Professional Edition for $199.00(US). Visit the Buy page for more information about prices, registration details and to order online.

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how to download fonts for photoshop cs4 and other programs

July 23rd, 2010

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Sans-Serif fonts

July 22nd, 2010

Sans-Serif

Sans-Serif

Sans-Serif

In typography, a sans-serif or sans serif  typeface  is one that does not have the small features called “serifs” at the end of strokes. The term comes from the Latin word “sine”, via the French word sans, meaning “without”.

In print, sans-serif fonts are more typically used for headlines than for body text. The conventional wisdom holds that serifs help guide the eye along the lines in large blocks of text. Sans-serifs, however, have acquired considerable acceptance for body text in Europe.

Sans-serif fonts have become the de facto standard for body text on-screen, especially online. This is partly because interlaced displays may show twittering on the fine details of the horizontal serifs. Additionally, the low resolution of digital displays in general can make fine details like serifs disappear or appear too large.

Before the term “sans-serif” became standard in English typography, a number of other terms had been used. One of these outmoded terms for sans serif was gothic, which is still used in East Asian typography and sometimes seen in font names like Century Gothic.

Sans-serif fonts are sometimes, especially in older documents, used as a device for emphasis, due to their typically blacker type color.

Other names for sans-serif

  • Egyptian
  • Antique
  • Grotesque
  • Doric
  • Gothic
  • Heiti
  • Lineale, or Linear
  • Simplices
  • Swiss
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Know Some Font Details

July 22nd, 2010

edra screens
This is a True Type version of Fedra Serif, specially hinted for the Clear Type rasterizer. A multilingual contemporary low-contrast serif typeface with short descenders and ascenders intended to work at extremely small sizes.

Plan_Grot_Sten_Cond
A display version of Plan Grotesque with space saving proportions. The typeface is appealing in large signage as well as traditional print use. The stencil cuts emphasise the stroke terminals and give the typeface a crisp, playful character.

klimax_small
Klimax is a display typeface with four styles and OpenType features meant for use at extremely large sizes. Klimax includes two basic styles, Plus and Minus — the heaviest and the lightest possible styles that can be made.

History

A display typeface system consisting of 21 layers inspired by the evolution of typography. These 21 independent typefaces share widths and other metric information so that they can be endlessly recombined.

Fedra_IPA
The first full IPA font to treat the glyphs as individual letterforms drawn according to the same principles as Fedra Serif rather than just mirroring existing glyphs. Designed for use in dictionaries.

Nara_font_overview
Nara escapes traditional type classification. It exhibits characteristics of humanist typefaces, but also modern typefaces. It comes with two different styles for emphasis—narrow upright cursive, and slanted italic.

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11 Best Fonts for Hand Drawn Style Web Design

June 11th, 2010

Gruthch Shaded:

Grutch Shaded

Pointy

Pointy

Pee Pants Script

Pee Pants Script

Fh Scribble

Fh Scribble

Stun Filla Wenka

OPN Stun Filla Wenka

Mia’s Scribblings

Mia's Scribblings<

Jamai Stevie

Jamaistevie

Sketch Block

Sketch Block

Tire Shop

Tire Shop

Be Arpaw

Bearpaw

Fail

Fail

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INSERTING AND FORMATTING TEXT FONT in Adobe Illustrator CS4!

May 26th, 2010

One of the most powerful features of Illustrator CS4 is the ability to use type as a graphic
element. Like other objects, type can be painted, scaled, rotated, etc. You can also wrap type
around objects, make it follow a path, create type masks, import text files into containers, and
modify the shape of individual letters in a block of type.

To add type to a document, do the following:
1. Select the Type tool from the toolbox.
2. Click and drag anywhere on the art board to create a marquee for your text.
3. Use the Character palette to choose the font, font color, font size, etc.
NOTE: To view the Character palette, click Window > Type > Character.

Wrapping text around a graphicWrapping-text
To make your work, for example a brochure, look professional, you may want to use Text Wrap
(Picture B).

Objects, which you will wrap text around, must be in front of the type. To make a
Text Wrap, do the following:

1. Select the object you wish to wrap text around.
2. Choose Object > Arrange > Bring To Front.
3. Choose Object > Text Wrap > Make.
4. Set the Text Wrap Options (Picture A).

text-wrap-option

(Picture A)

Important: You can change how close the text wraps around an image after you have made it by
changing the offset (Picture A). Choose Object > Text Wrap > Text Wrap Options. The lower
the offset the closer the wrap.

After your Text Wrap is set you can move the object freely without resetting your wrap options.

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Illustrator Basic Text Effects – Tutorial!

May 5th, 2010

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True Type Fonts in PHP!

April 28th, 2010

<?php
header (“Content-type: image/png”);

$im = ImageCreate (300, 40);
$grey = ImageColorAllocate ($im, 230, 230, 230);
$black = ImageColorAllocate ($im, 0, 0, 0);

ImageTTFText($im, 20, 0, 10, 25, $black, “CORBEL.TTF”, “TrueType Fonts!”);
ImagePng ($im);
ImageDestroy ($im);
?>

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