Windows Font Basics for New Font Users: Lesson 1 - Resident and Soft Fonts

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Windows Font Basics for New Font Users Lesson 1 - Resident and Soft Fonts From Jacci Howard Bear, your Guide to Desktop Publishing Before we start downloading, installing, and using fonts from the Web we need to cover a few font basics. I promise not to go off on a tangent and overload you with typographic history, oddball trivia, or terribly technical mumbo-jumbo. I'll save that for a future class for veteran font fanatics. This Lesson Resident and Soft Fonts The first step in understanding and using digital fonts is learning just a touch about font formats.There are two broad categories of digital fonts - resident and soft fonts. More Next Lesson In lesson 2 we'll look at how the primary Windows font formats - TrueType, OpenType, and Type 1 fonts - are similiar and how they differ. DTP Classroom Have questions about anything in this class? The DTP Classroom is your safe place for asking even the most basic questions. About Type & Fonts Discuss all kinds of typography issues, search for specific fonts, or get help identifying a mystery font in the About Type & Fonts forum. This email is written by: Jacci Howard Bear Desktop Publishing Guide Email Me | My Blog | My Forum   Missing a lesson? Click here. About U. is our collection of free online courses designed to help you learn a new skill, solve a problem, get something done, or just learn more about your world. Sign up now, and we will email you lessons on a daily or weekly basis. You are receiving this email because you subscribed to the About.com 'Windows Font Basics for New Font Users' email. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here. About respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 249 West 17th Street New York, NY, 10011 © 2010 About.com   Advertisement