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Arts and crafts font...OT

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond, CA

>Anybody know where to find a nice free font? Thamks!

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Look at these *LINK*

Dan Donaldson

>A Google search for free fonts.


free fonts

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A few specific typefaces *LINK*

Andrew F in Australia

>Google will bring them up easily enough - If you need help locating a particular face, let me know and I'll find out where I downloaded it from (thankyou Google Desktop (c))

Here's a few possible suggestions as far as typeface:

Avignon

Burmingham

Burton's Nightmare

Gatsby

Greyhound (this one's a Mackintosh lookalike)

Metropolis

New Yorker

New Hampshire

Nickerbocker

Nickley

Nouveau

The site below is the one that had free fonts for download.

Cheers,

Andrew


http://www.specialtyfonts.com/deco/fontsD-N.htm

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Anderw, Thanks! but...

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond, CA

>How do you get them? I tried saving to disk AKA "save link/ file as" but to no avail, I'm stuck. Any help?

Nice fonts BTW that's what I'm looking for.

Thank you!

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Thanks Dan...

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond, CA

>I've dug here and there and it seems to me there are no "free ones"...

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No problems - download instructions

Andrew F in Australia

>Hi Scott,

(this assumes that you're using an IBM computer with windows)

(1)If you click on the link next to each font (where it says click here)

(2)A download window will come up, click on 'save to disk' and then 'OK'

(3)On my computer, this saved to the desktop - if it doesn't save there, use the search function on the computer to look for

(3a) some of these files may be in a *.zip file, you need to extract these, by right-clicking on the *.zip file and then choosing the 'extract' function.

(4)Copy or move the font file to your windows/fonts directory (folder.) On my computer, it's at c:\windows\fonts\

You will see a lot of font files in this directory. Just add the file to the directory (folder)

(5) Open up Microsoft Word and see if the font is available to use. If so, good. If not, please ask again and we'll see where the problem lies

Cheers,

Andrew

(who's not the best in the world at computer stuff and hopes that these instructions make sense.)

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Got 'em Andrew Thank you!

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond, CA

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