Note: Technically, a font is a typeface at a specific size, so Times Roman is a typeface, but Times Roman 16pt is a font. ![]() ![]() Install a program like Microsoft Word and it adds more typefaces! Hopefully, you can find a typeface that will work already installed on your PC, but if not, there are ways to add new ones with a simple download. Suffice to say that as our computers have gained more and more storage space, it’s been easier for operating systems to include more typefaces and now Mac and Windows systems typically have a few dozen included. A more common ligature is the æ diphthong of encyclopædia, as a common example. Try it: fi should not have the dot over the ‘i’ on a well-implemented font. I know, you’re now asking “what’s a ligature?” and the answer is a letter pairing that’s used when you have common sequences like a lowercase ‘f’ followed by a lowercase ‘i’. If you wanted to get more, you were buying them from a big type foundry company like Merganthaler or picking up CDROM’s full of mostly public domain indie fonts, many of which were crude and poorly implemented. In the early days of the PC, you were basically limited to the half-dozen typefaces included with Windows.
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