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Part of the fun of printing signs and newsletters is personalizing the look with your favorite fonts. Fonts are the styles for letter and number characters that you choose for the text you type and print in word-processing and desktop-publishing applications. There are two main types of fonts for Macs and Windows: Adobe's PostScript Type 1 fonts, which require special Adobe Type Manager software, and the more ubiquitous and easier-to-use TrueType fonts. When you download a TrueType font, you get a file to save to your hard drive. In Windows, copy the TTF file to the Fonts folder in the Control Panel; on Macs, copy files to the Fonts folder in the System Folder. When you next open an application, the font will be available. Fonts that don't come with your computer usually cost something. But there are hundreds of sites with free fonts for you to download and test; check out the list of sites at right. —Eric Griffith
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