Thursday, 19 April 2007

week 2 -sarah,sam,daniel

Font choices these days have become so overused and limited. Why settle for boring fonts when you can design and add your own flavor into a font? Font software packages have been made available so that you can simply play around with a font or create a completely new font designs from scratch.

To start of with the basic editing software, the Type Tool software could be the one. With this, creating new fonts or modifying existing fonts can be made easier with features such as font info, which is a dialog that gives access to various font properties such as menu and family names, supported codepages or line spacing metrics. The edit outline glyphs also uses more than intuitive 20 tools compared to other software. By its feature of the Open Type font with up to 65, 000 glyphs, students, hobby typographers and creative professionals can now find an alternative to make font designing easier.

A slightly more advanced font editing software that is popularly used by most font designers these days is the latest font editor, Fontographer. This software is commonly used because of its user friendliness and for that, it wouldn’t be a problem for beginners despite of its advancement. Some software take a very long time to render, but worry no more because Fontographer features real-time rendering. It lets you design, edit, and manipulate fonts in a variety of editing windows. You can even specify, view and print because of its typographical precision, which includes snap-to-guides and snap-to-points. This software package is highly rated and recommended by top software critiques.

Then there is the AsiaFont Studio editing software. This software is a two-byte font editor. With it, you can create Japanese and various Chinese fonts, and other multilingual Uni-code OpenType based fonts as well. This software allows you to work up till 65,000+ glyphs and it has access to 100,000+ Unicode characters. With features such as Vector Paint tools, it allows you to quickly and easily draw out new characters and import up to 64,000 characters. This software has been programmed to work best with any Microsoft Windows computers, thus being flexible on the job and whenever its needed.

These are just three out of many fonts editing software that is available in the market. As you know, fonts make all the difference in giving any publication the right feel. There’s nothing like a great font to capture the reader’s attention and excite them the way you want to. These software programs are created to do exactly that. They open doors to creating and painting out a brilliant world of fonts of your own.

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