get more fonts

[Perky]

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
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thanks a bunch

[dobey]

"Perky" > wrote in message
...
>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
> --
> thanks a bunch

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.

[Perky]

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


"MAP" wrote:

> >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
>
> --
> Mike Pawlak
>
>
>

[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

--
Mike Pawlak

[Uncle Grumpy]

"MAP" > wrote:

>>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

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/

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[Allen]

zerof wrote:
> 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/
>
A good place to start is the newsgroup alt.binaries.fonts.
Allen

[Perky]

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


"Allen" wrote:

> zerof wrote:
> > 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/
> >
> A good place to start is the newsgroup alt.binaries.fonts.
> Allen
>

[MAP]

Uncle Grumpy wrote:
> "MAP" > wrote:
>
>>> 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
>
> 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.

--
Mike Pawlak

[MAP]

MAP wrote:
> Uncle Grumpy wrote:
>> "MAP" > wrote:
>>
>>>> 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
>>
>> 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.

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

--
Mike Pawlak

[Uncle Grumpy]

"MAP" > wrote:

>> 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.

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.