A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....02-22-05....Fontastic!

Billie

[Billie]

A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day

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We're gonna do somethin' Different today! :)

A couple of weeks ago I was having some major problems with my computer, and the tech that I use determined the best way to 'fix' it was to wipe everything from the hard drive and start over. He backed up my files and reinstalled them, but some things couldn't be salvaged - among them, many of the neat fonts I had downloaded to make fancy headings.

It wasn't until I looked at our regular threads - the topper we use on all of our threads and the TGIF post in particular - that I realized some of the fonts I used on them were not standard Windows fonts. Because they were already on my computer and I hadn't put them there, I just assumed they were part of the Windows default fonts. They must have been installed on my pc with a word processing program which I also lost in the reformatting, and therefore those fonts were not showing up anymore for me.

The default font face at FR is "Times New Roman" (the one you're seeing in red now.)

The yellow text above was typed with the "Calisto MT" font (which is a Windows Default font), and the font I am using now is called "Comic Sans MS". If you can't see the difference in this white type and the red, then the Comic font is not installed on your pc.

Ho-Hum! Yawwwwnnn!

Stop reading if you know all this already (she said in "Lucida Sans Italic"). If not, and you'd like to jazz up your posts with different types of font faces, then this thread's for you. It's easy, and it's fun. :)

I've now switched to another Windows Default Font called "Arial". I use it a lot for the text in my opening posts, because it's very plain and easy to read and everybody has it installed on their computers. It's a larger *type* than "Times New Roman", so I dropped the size down to "2" instead of the default size of "3".

When you open our threads each day, if the heading in the topper looks like the first example instead of the second one, then you don't have the font "FifthAve" installed on your computer.

If "Quill" is not in your font folder on your computer, when you open the TGIF thread, you'll see the first example instead of the second one. (The second one's much prettier, isn't it?)

I've also used Invitation, Vivaldi, Kidprint, Tabitha, and Chaucer often in my posts, to name just a few more that are not Windows Default Fonts. My profile page doesn't look right without "Tabitha" and "Kidprint" fonts. You can find most of those in the link I've provided in the "Three Easy Steps" below.

"Kidprint" was more difficult to find, but I searched for and found it all by itself (in a zip file)      HERE!

If you're still reading - THANK YOU! LOL - and you do want to dress up your posts, or simply see our threads as they're meant to be seen, it only takes three easy steps to do so. Are you ready? Let's go!

1.  Get Font      2.  Install Font      3.  Post Font
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1.  Get Font.....

You could search Google Web for Free Fonts, or you could search Google Web for a specific font, or you can click on the link below for the easiest and one of the best collections of free fonts available on the net. (I've searched through several sites for my collection of pretty and/or cute or unusual fonts, but Mama_Bear sent me this particular website last week, and it is really great!)

6500 Free Fonts to Download

It couldn't be easier. If you want the fonts that I mentioned above, just go to the letter of the alphabet and look for them; or when you see any that you like, just click on the link to download it.

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2.  Install Font.....

When you click on that link under the font you want to install, select "Save" to your computer rather than "Open", and another window will open asking you where you want to save it. Choose C:/ and then Windows and navigate down the list of folders in Windows until you find the Fonts folder. Click on "Fonts" and you are downloading each font directly into C:/Windows/Fonts. That's it! *That* installs the new font on your pc - both Windows 98 AND Windows XP! The new font is *THERE* and ready to use.

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3.  Post Font.....

You know how to make a post in color, and you know how to make a post in a bigger or smaller type - it's just as easy to make a post using a font other than the default, as long as it's installed on your pc. You type all the font commands inside one bracket, like this:

<font face="comic sans ms" color="blue" size="5">

To turn OFF the font, type </font> only one time, and it turns off the face, the color, and the size all at once. (You still have to turn on and turn off the bold or Italics commands separately.)

Whew! Got it? Now I need coffee! Lots of coffee! Please, please, please, somebody, tell me you're going to install a new font or two and post it here so I didn't wear my fingers to the bone posting all this stuff for nothin'! :) The main thing you need to remember is that though you may see your fancy new font, unless it's on someone else's computer as well, they may not see why you're smiling so big about that pretty post you just made. Darn it!

Now Have Fun! (This is "Quill" - if you download and install it, you will see it.)

THIS WEEK'S THREADS 02-21-05 Military Monday

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[tuliptree76]

:-)

I just thought everything was in Times New Roman. LOL!

[ST.LOUIE1]

((((((Pipster!)))))

Morning, doll. : )

[tuliptree76]

How have you been, Louie?

[Billie]

Happy Anniversary! What are you having for dinner tonight? (besides Cherry Pie maybe?) :)

[Aquamarine]

The Quill font probably started showing up after you refreshed the page.

Well done!

[The Thin Man]

Huh.... I downloaded the quill and refreshed the page and the font didn't change. Then after looking in my Fonts folder to make sure it was there I returned to the thread and suddenly the new font appears. Are you lucky! I was just about to write a very unflattering message to you. :-).

Maybe just for the fun of it I'll write that message anyway. :-)

[Billie]

COOOOOL thread!! Colorful too!
I'll let the girls do the font tricks since I don't have many of the ones you've used. : )
Morning, gorgeous BillieBlue! : )

Ah, wolfie has arrived! It's okay if you don't do the font tricks - you're colorful enough without them. :)

[ST.LOUIE1]

Doin' just fine, thanks, how's about you, Tulip? : )

[tuliptree76]

I first tried refreshing, but I had to completely close Internet Explorer before it showed up.

[ST.LOUIE1]

- you're colorful enough without them. :)

Well, yes......I am. Thank you. LOL

[tuliptree76]

I'm doing fine too. I'm actually getting a chance to post this morning. LOL!

[Aquamarine]

Hmmm now that I think about it I looked in my font folder when Quill didn't show up after refreshing and it showed up after that.

Maybe Billie can explain that.

[ST.LOUIE1]

Good morning, pretty ladies. : )

[Aquamarine]

Mornin Handsome.

[tuliptree76]

Hmmm... I had completely closed Internet Explorer, but I also looked in the font folder. Maybe it's a little quirk in Windows.

[Billie]

Okay, I may be dense here but I am having trouble "downloading" the font. I went to your site and clicked on quill. I clicked on the web link underneath the name and all I get is a page with a lot of numbers and letters. Nothing to download. Can you help me out? What am I doing wrong?

Hmmmmm, you should get *this* when you click on that link:

You should select "Save", and then you should get another window asking you where you want to save it. Could you try it again?

[Billie]

See, it's fun, isn't it?!

[The Thin Man]

Glad I'm not alone. I was worried that my eyes were playing tricks on me.

[Billie]

I just thought everything was in Times New Roman. LOL!

My profile page is MOSTLY in *Tabitha* (you can find that in the link provided, too) and *Kidprint*.

I had a hard time replacing kidprint, but finally found it in a *zip* file. There's a link for that one all by itself in the paragraph right after the Quill and FifthAve examples. If you downloaded that one, you would need to have Winzip or some other unzipping program to unzip it. Most of the fonts I had downloaded in the past only came in zipped format. There's a really good, simple, free unzipper called *Zip Exploder* that I use. It's all it does - unzip files. :)

[tuliptree76]

I had that trouble too. I didn't have any boxes to click on - just a link. And when I clicked on the link I just got a page with a lot of numbers and letters. But what I did was right click on that link, and when a menu came up, I chose "Save Target As..." Then the box to save it came up.