Archive for April, 2010

True Type Fonts in PHP!

Wednesday, 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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How to use the alternate fonts in Dreamweaver CS3?

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

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Core fonts for the Web!

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

Core fonts for the Web was a project begun by Microsoft in 1996 to make a standard pack of fonts for the Internet. The fonts were designed to:

  • Be highly legible on screen;
  • Offer a wide range of typographic “timbres” within a small number of typefaces; and
  • Support extensive internationalisation.

These design goals and the fonts’ broad availability have made them extremely popular with web designers.

While the program has formally ended, the benefits of using broadly available fonts remain; hence, in addition to the original core fonts, newer fonts packaged with Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office increasingly form a new canon of core fonts. Broader web browser adoption of the web fonts specification may ultimately render the notion of core fonts obsolete by allowing the real-time downloading and display of specific fonts.

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How will you utilize Fonts correctly in a Technical file?

Monday, April 5th, 2010

I. Choose your headlines from NON-SERIF fonts (like Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Tahoma, Futura, Optima) & your body text from SERIF fonts (like Roman, Times Roman, Times New Roman, Georgia, Bookman).

II. ITALIC is designed to draw attention to itself by desirable quality of being hard to read. That’s why, in a block of readable text, it makes sense to highlight a word or a phrase by printing it in Italic.

On the other hand, a few authors print entire web or print pages in Italic! That defies the entire function of the Italic style. Each time you utilize Italic font, be alert that you are making your words difficult to read. Thus use it carefully, like adding sugar to your coffee.

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