Dec 16 2009
Cool Fonts
Posted by: Techpin in Websites, design

A computer font is a set of electronic data characters that contains a clear typestyle and size. Times Roman and Arial are the most common fonts. There are a wide range of font sets that vary in shape, size, design and color. Computers are provided with a predefined number of fonts, but there are many sites from where you can get free fonts that manage to reach to the desired effect, like making invitations with cool fonts.
Since the 1990’s most fonts are digital, used on computers, but at first the term font referred to a set of metal type sorts in one style and size. There are 3 basic sorts of computer font file data formats as follows: bitmap fonts, outline fonts and stroke fonts. Through the use of the Macintosh and Microsoft Windows software systems, computer  fonts have become worldwide popularized. This technology has been evolving for more than 30 years and today almost all computer users acces to various number of fonts in customizing documents, and graphics.

They most often strict policies refering to typesetting in documents require a document to be set in 12 point Times New Roman. The most interesting about this is the fact is that nobody  can remember exactly why they have these standard commands. Everybody simply remember that always have them.
Liontype uses for the first time the name "Times Roman", and after that Stanley Morison adopted the term "Times New Roman" and relase it with the issue of The Times newspaper from 3 October 1932. A wealth of Web sites exist that can provide various types of fonts from classic to cool. Besides this option cool fonts are organized alphabetical or by most popular. This can inform you which fonts are the most downloaded.

Now it’s possible only by changing the font to completely modify any kind of document or text in graphics. You have many options for example you can change the size of the font, the style and also the color. If you can add a special unique thing to your page, make your document look more professional or you can choose only to customize youe mail. You can invent your own unique logo with a style that everybody will notice and appreciate.
Every font has a name and the style is showed in a manner that you can easily identfy. Before you select cool fonts to use, you can try different styles in an input box in which you can type in any words and you can see how they change depending on the fonts you chose.
Here are some cool fonts that people seems to be most attracted to and also a few words about each one:
Cool Fonts – as the name indicates these fonts offer a cool look. There are many different types like cool dots, gooddog cool, cool fatcats and cool three pixels. The gooddog cool puts dots under letters for make it look better while cool fatcats sets a cat between the letters.
Graffiti Fonts – also a popular category of cool fonts. It has eight diverse fonts that have different graffiti styles.
Tattoo Fonts – are one of the most searched fonts. Every one of the fonts has various tattoo symbols.

Typewriter Fonts – these ones are special because have a history, these come from the time that the computer does not exists and they were used on the very old typewriter. Old typewriter font is the one that really seems like an old typewriter used very much and become useless.
Outline fonts – this cool fonts are amazing, you can design letters with contour of different kinds. You can choose to customize the letters with of empty dots by using 3x3 dots outline. For just outline the letters you can use archery font. Also you have the option to fill the letters with black and than add a white outline with a black line you need to choose andrion outline which use an invert outline. For a special effect you can pick between Avondale and Avondale italic which is present in Italic and regular format.

Dingbats – these type of fonts offers you the chance to select from Air Force or military dingbats. These represents in fact pictures of guns which can be added into a document or program. The images are very realistic, especialy animal dingbats, photoghaph of Asian women. If you look for shoking images for Halloween this is the place where you can find horror dingbats or anything that involves the paranotmal area.
Script Font – This kind are used especialy for showers, wedding invitations or formal teas. These are more formal. What characterizes this font is the script font which is the first choice in hand written calligraphy. There are many types of script from where you can choose some of them have even a fun and cool design
Technology Font – You can choose from several types of technology font which contributes themselves to bold technology. These have the advantage to offer bolder character of modern technology or a reverse print.

Beta Font – this is a feature that can picture white letters in contrast with a dark layout or it can be use also in reverse.
There are other sections of cool fonts like: Italic, Bold, Oblique, Solid, Condensed, Extended, Shadows and Expanded.
These are in fact versions of various styles of fonts that you can find. For example a font may have by choice an Italic and a bold version but it can also have a Italic/Bold version. So after you have seen the multitude of types of fonts from you can choose, you should be able to design your documents or website page in an personal and unique way. I hope that you enjoy the hole thing and that you will find the cool fonts that may define you or express your state of mind.





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