D'vorahDavida
Yetzirah

Night of the Un-Fonts
Thu Aug 07 2003

Right now on my computer I have 219 fonts installed.

This is a moderate number of fonts for me.

At one point, I had about 900.

That was in the good old days. Until I realized that it was taking forever for Word to open up because it was hauling out all those fonts in case I decided to use them.

I did a major housecleaning and got rid of a bunch of them, but I kept some on a folder on my desktop called Un-fonts just in case I get a case of the low font count jitters. There are 402 of them in the un-font file.
The fact that I actually only USE about 20 of them, is of no importance to me, I just want to HAVE them in there in case I get some crazy printing idea on a rainy day and want some weird fonts to play with.

Because I do not have the proper HTML skills, I cannot show you some of my cool fonts. Maybe one day I will get there, but at this point HTML might as well be Uzbekistanian to me. I have only the most rudimentary understanding of it.
For instance, the pink bar at the bottom of my posting was dictated to me by my
youngest son over the phone. The only thing I knew about were the color codes, he had to tell me the rest of it. And he also told me how to add a link and I have it written on a piece of paper taped to my monitor for the rare occasions I put a link on my diary.

Anyway, I am composing this entry in Word with a font called Ragamuffin. You can get it from the internet for free. Go to FONT FREAK or one of those cool places and check out all the wild and whacky ways you can use up paper and make things hard to read!

Well, gotta go.

Time for bed.


4 Comments
  • From:
    JustAnotherBeth (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Aug 07 2003
    changing the fonts of your dear diary entries is VERY easy. Just do it like this....

    <font face="Name of font">

    (inserting the font name between the quotes of course... then everything you type after that will be in the font you chose. !!!

    good luck and have fun
    -Beth
  • From:
    Pragmatist (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Aug 07 2003
    My granddaughter had to tell me how to get to Word Pad. I kept forgetting. So I finally wrote it down and taped it to my monitor.

    HOW many fonts did you say?
  • From:
    Fairywishes (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Aug 07 2003

    I can't even work out how to use a font once I have downloaded it from the internet! *smile*

  • From:
    RealmOfRachel (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Aug 07 2003
    I like the Tolkien font there's something nicely Celtic about it even if its the devil to read!