How to make your own fontWritten by Maui Reyes
If you’ve always thought your handwriting is so much better than many fonts out there, then maybe it’s time you made your mark: literally. Creating your own font isn’t as hard as it seems—all you need is a pen, a paper, a little program-know-how, and a comprehensible penmanship.Oh, and Macromedia’s Fontographer and Adobe Illustrator. 1.)Write down alphabet. If you have a WACOM or any other drawing tablet, then you can just doodle right on to Photoshop or whatever photo editing software you have. If you don’t have one, then a pen and paper will do—plus a scanner. Scan it using highest resolution possible, so you’ll get a pretty accurate scribble for your font. 2.)Edit it. If you think your penmanship is perfect way it is, noise and all, then skip this part. But if you think it needs a little more work, go ahead and clean it up using Photoshop or whatever photo editing software you use. Now you’ll have to save each letter as an individual file. 3.)Open Fontographer. This is where your font comes to life. Go to File menu and choose “new font”. Double click on letter “A”, and a window will pop up. It’s time to get busy. 4.)Cut and paste, edit if you like. Copy letter “A” that you have in Photoshop or whatever program you used, and paste it in Fontographer window. This is “guide” for your font—it’s not actually a font yet. Now select “Outline” from layers menu, then click on “Auto Trace” from Element menu. This lets Fontographer trace edges of your font for you. Twiddle with settings on Auto Trace to achieve your desired tracing effect. If Auto Trace didn’t seem to do such a good job at certain corners, you can always correct it. Use arrow tool to edit points. This takes practice to master, so be patient.
| | Broadband is State-of-the-Art Internet Access: How Can a Broadband Cable Benefit You?Written by Dave Gonzalez
We are now well ensconced in a time when Web is riddled with graphics, animations, sounds, and videos, bringing about a necessity for superior internet access such as that which broadband can provide. The fact is that anything less than speed supplied by a broadband cable has become inadequate for today’s Web users. Of course, if you use internet only once every so often, you wouldn’t be as heavily dependent upon high-speed internet access as is provided by broadband, however, if you’re a regular user, it’s virtually a necessity. But wait a minute…even though you use internet, it doesn’t mean you know exactly what this high focus form of internet access actually is. So lets start there. In essence, broadband is a very fast form of internet connection. It will provide you with a noticeably faster internet speed than a dial-up connection. Broadband used to be a challenge only because of it’s limited availability, however, today there are many ways that you can have a much faster connection. The delivery methods have been expanded to following types of broadband cable: - Copper telephone wires - Cable TV wires - Radio microwaves from local base stations - Satellite microwaves from geo-stationary satellites Now lets look at why this faster style of internet access is actually better. The benefits of broadband actually include much more than faster downloads. Broadband is connection that is always “on”. As soon as you start up your computer, it’s already connected to internet. For anyone who has waited for a modem to dial up and connect, advantage of this is quite apparent. Furthermore, broadband allows you to download movies, music, and web pages that were virtually inaccessible in practical terms when using dial-up.
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