get more fonts

[Guest]

i am running xp pro fully updated.could someone recommend a good safe site to
download free fonts. my wife designs greetings cards as a hobby and some more
font designs would come in handy. or maybe there is a way to design our own
fonts. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
thank you
perky

 

[dobey]

i am running xp pro fully updated.could someone recommend a good safe site
to
download free fonts. my wife designs greetings cards as a hobby and some
more
font designs would come in handy. or maybe there is a way to design our
own
fonts. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
thank you
perky

AFAIK fonts aren't executable, so provided you don't run an exe, bat, com
file etc, you downloaded as a font I can't see a problem. Most font file
I've seen are just stored in zip/rar archives.

It should be noted that having too many font's on your system can slow it
down. At least this was true under earlier versions of Windows. Maybe
someone could confirm/deny that under XP.

I can't recommend a good site though, but I've never had a problem with
downloaded fonts - except you will find the same ones often on different
sites.

 

[Guest]

thank you for your help.I will bear the info in mind
perky

 

[MAP]

It should be noted that having too many font's on your system can slow it

down. At least this was true under earlier versions of Windows. Maybe
someone could confirm/deny that under XP.

I have heard this too, in reguards to XP

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

I have heard this too, in reguards to XP

What is "too many"? I have 982 ... so far.

That said, my system doesn't even show a hint of being slowed by all
the fonts. I'd say what you've "heard" is meaningless BS.

 

[zerof]

Perky escreveu:

i am running xp pro fully updated.could someone recommend a good safe site to
download free fonts. my wife designs greetings cards as a hobby and some more
font designs would come in handy. or maybe there is a way to design our own
fonts. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
thank you
perky

I'm using in my site some GPL fonts, for Mathematics and Freetype for
design. You can download (or know more about), at:

http://freetype.sourceforge.net/download.html

http://web.mit.edu/is/topics/webpublishing/mathml/fonts-win.html

http://www.educar.pro.br/

 

[Allen]

Perky escreveu:
I'm using in my site some GPL fonts, for Mathematics and Freetype for
design. You can download (or know more about), at:

http://freetype.sourceforge.net/download.html

http://web.mit.edu/is/topics/webpublishing/mathml/fonts-win.html

http://www.educar.pro.br/

A good place to start is the newsgroup alt.binaries.fonts.
Allen

 

[Guest]

i have read all the replies and took them on board. A big thank you to you all
perky

 

[MAP]

What is "too many"? I have 982 ... so far.

That said, my system doesn't even show a hint of being slowed by all
the fonts. I'd say what you've "heard" is meaningless BS.

Perhaps.

 

[MAP]

Perhaps.

But then again:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=too+many+fonts+in+xp

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

Perhaps.

I had 700 running Win98. No problem

It's meaningless BS if one has a properly setup system with enough
memory and hard drive space.