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Thursday, July 12, 2007 – Permalink –
Free Commercial Fonts
Good for non-commercial purposes

"Here you'll find one of the most unique archives out there for free fonts. We not only scoured the corners of the earth in search of famous fonts, but also helped create them! Explore around and download to your heart's delight! We have a vast selection from Willy Wonka to Honda to Pizza Hut. All fonts are free to download for any non-commercial purpose. Enjoy the fonts!"

SharkShock.com

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Sunday, June 03, 2007 – Permalink –
Slashed Zero
Oh!
ø

There is a discussion of the slashed zero at:
How to Insert a Slashed Zero (0 Overlaid with a /) - 211315

You can also download the Monaco font that has a slashed ø
(Monaco is an embeddable font)

Andale.ttf (Mono) has a dotted 0

Seagullscientific.com has a font called Crystal

Windows has a free font editor. Type eudcedit on the Start>Run line.
Vic Laurie has a description of the Private Character Editor- Eudcedit

You could also use the EQ field to create a strike through and assign it to an AutoCorrect entry.

{EQ \o (0,/)}

The easiest is, probably Alt+0216 or Alt+0248 It's a Latin "oh" with stroke, but it looks close.

The HTML character code is ø ø

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Thursday, April 19, 2007 – Permalink –
Make Your Own Fonts
No molten lead required

Not satisfied with the billions of available typefaces for free or pay? Do it yourself.

Okay. Fine. I'll let the secret out. This tutorial explains my personal font-making technique. It may not be the academically approved typographic design process, but it works for me, and it can be done on any Mac or PC with the proper software installed. You've been working with the alphabet since you were a small child. Now you can make a font of your own.

How to Make Your Own Fonts

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Tuesday, April 10, 2007 – Permalink –
Vista Fonts
Free fonts for Win XP

There are some good fonts that come with Vista. If you're still running XP or 2000. You can get the typefaces for free when you install the PowerPoint 2007 viewer.

Download the free Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 Viewer or the Microsoft Office Compatibility pack- both the software include the new Windows Vista fonts.

The Vista Fonts available for use on your Windows XP system are Candara, Consolas, Calibri, Cambria, Constantia and Corbel.

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Tuesday, April 03, 2007 – Permalink –
Face new Fonts
The free type

UrbanFonts offers over 8,000 free typefaces and dingbats.

The winner is the person who dies with the most ampersands.

UrbanFonts.com

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Wednesday, January 24, 2007 – Permalink –
Font Properties Plus
Everything you need to know

To embed a font in a document or slide show so it can be displayed on any other machine, the font must support that action. The standard Windows properties statement does not show all the needed information.

The bottom of this illustration shows the standard information shown when you right-click a font file, and choose properties. The two views at the top are what appear when the Microsoft Font properties extension is installed.

If you right click on a font file in Windows its basic properties are displayed. The Font properties extension adds several new property tabs to this properties dialog box. These include information relating to font origination and copyright, the type sizes to which hinting and smoothing are applied, and the code pages supported by extended character sets.

It also will tell you if the font can be embeddedand/or edited in a document.

Protected

The font may not be embedded, copied, or modified. If you use a protected font in a document and if the document is opened on a computer that does not have the font installed on it, a font substitution occurs. Word substitutes the closest font available on the computer for the missing protected font.

Print/Preview

The font is embedded and temporarily loaded on the target computer. Documents that contain print/preview fonts must be opened read-only, and no edits are stored in the document. Embedding a font of this nature has the least impact on file size increase.

Editable

The font behaves just like the print/preview fonts, except that you may also apply the font to other text in the same document.

Installable

The font is installed on the target computer permanently when you open the document. This allows you to use the new fonts as if you installed the fonts directly into Windows yourself. This type of embedded font has the greatest impact on file size because the entire font or fonts are included with the document.

Versionand Features tabs
The Version tab includes version and date information. The Features tab describes the font in terms of number of glyphs, number of kerning pairs, the possible existence of a euro symbol and the presence of embedded bitmaps within the font.

Linkstab
If a font doesn't include a Web site URL, but does include a 'vendor ID code' a link will be provided to Microsoft's font vendor database.

The latest version is 2.3 as of December, 2006.
Font properties extension, version 2.3

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