** RESOURCE: Fonts The newest threads are listed first. Newer posts may have more current information and/or build on experience or on info from prior posts, but not always. One of the advantages of looking at prior posts instead of posting a new thread is that you’ll immediately see multiple solutions and/or conflicting advice or maybe even a lively discussion. While the best answer to some questions may always be the same, not all advice works for every system. Therefore, be cautious, especially of advice touting one-size fits-all cures for anything and everything that ails your computer. Some posters hawk software they just discovered without fully knowing it does, or even if it can harm your system. Some of these RESOURCE posts may include URLs for MS Knowledge Base articles and/or other websites; if so, they’re listed after Computing.net threads. Six digit numbers are from the Win9x forum; 5 & 4 digit numbers are from the WinME forum. For the reasons behind these posts, see RESOURCE: Introduction. Please add other resources to this post, and I’ll incorporate them in updated listings. Exceptional links (very comprehensive or having info/advice not found elsewhere) will be indicated with »double guillemets«. This updates and therefore replaces post # 19924. ============================================================ ** RESOURCE: Prior Posts on FONTS Regular, italic, bold, bold italic: 112552 Installing/Can’t Install/Reinstalling Fonts: 19760 17642 14696 8910 8360 6061 3121 MS KB 133725 Number of fonts: 19866 3131 MS KB 131943 Fonts Used in Posting (color, type, how-to): See RESOURCE: Posts on Hyperlinks/23626 Fonts/Font Size in Explorer, IE: 15266 10850 10586 5859 3685 3672 Fonts in Word 2000 12478 Duplicate Fonts (font.001, font.002) 13815 13772 Fonts Not Displaying Correctly 20145 19209 15516 12033 Free Fonts 23662 Some of the following sites offer free clipart, and have links to other sites: Top Fonts Larabie Fonts Pizza Dude The Free Site PC Fonts Jeff @McGill Free Bounty Reflect Design 1001 Free Fonts Free Fonts Free PC Fonts Top 20 Free Font Craft P22 (good info & links only) Type Review (valuable reviews on type only) ============================================================ Renaissance Man’s 2¢ Worth: Free Font Warning: While I’m a fontoholic, even I don’t download a font just because it’s free. Most free fonts are terrible looking or so oddball you’ll never use them, and they usually don’t have a full character set (i.e., they’re missing caps or lower case, punctuation, numbers, curly quotes, etc.) And save yourself a lot of time: if a font is described but not displayed, don’t bother. Some quality font vendors (e.g., Adobe, p22, AgfaMonotype) sometimes offer a free font if you visit their site and fill out a questionnaire. A Mini-Course in Typography These are "inch marks;" these are “smart or curly quotes.” Indents should be no wider than the width of one or (at most) two letter ms (half-inch defaults are much too wide: look at any book or newspaper). At the beginning of a new paragraph, either indent or skip a line, not both. The left margin should be wider than the right margin; the bottom margin should be wider than the top margin. Leave one space after punctuation—even after periods; no exceptions! In most instances, save bold for headings and sub-headings. With a word processor, never underline. DO NOT USE ALL CAPS! Use hyphenation! Use kerning! Generally speaking, use only one serif and one sans serif per page. If you’re printing an article and three lines spill over onto the last page, adjust your margins or your font size or your word/letterspacing (or edit) to keep that from happening. If anyone follows any of this advice, thank you, thank you, thank you. And if you do not, you will pay the price by lost readership and/or lower reader comprehension. Your choice.

Great thread. I only have one "free font" hyperlink to offer. I found this page about a week ago and i love it. No popups, no sign ups NO NONSENSE! Its a very clean looking site thats logically layed out with tons of great fonts...enough hype heres the link ! StealhFonts.com

Two questions, Are you sure about the spacing thing? I could swear its 2 after a period and one after a comma (or other non terminal punctuation). If you should never underline in a word processor enviroment, then why do almost all resume software packages (including MS templates) underline things? Jimi_l

I'm certain about the spaces after a period. No professionally typeset book, magazine, or newspaper has two spaces after a period. That’s a rule for typewriters, not proportionally spaced type. Resume software packages are not designed by, or in consultation with, typographers. The problem with underlining is that it's too close to (or touches or overlaps) the descenders (the parts of the letters that hang below the baseline, as in p q g j y) and make it very hard to read. The only reason they're acceptable with typewriters, is that they have no italics or bold. I do not have a bibliography handy, but if anyone would like a short list of great books on typography, I'll put one together.

A place to test your html and see what it will look like in real time. http://www.angelfire.com/anime4/thanatos/Editor.html