It might not be appropriate to use a fancy font for some kinds of printed text, but the applications for special fonts are wide-ranging.įonts are available for matching to a wide variety of themes and contents, to allow you to express your personal style or to appeal to the tastes of a specific recipient. Font designers are true artists, and their artworks show just what imaginative graphic design can do to spice up a dull document. A browse through some of the fonts available for downloading shows how wrong that assumption is. Most of us think of fonts as little more than functional features in our word processors. Once installed the font’s name should appear in your word processing program along with all the usual font options. Most sites have easy to follow instructions on how to proceed.
Typically, the fonts are available as zipped files that need to be unzipped and installed in your fonts folder. The internet abounds with sites that offer free font downloads that you can use for printed documents. Fun fonts can give your text documents a distinctive look.
If you’re bored with Arial, Times Roman and Comic Sans Serif, try some new fonts.
