Kamis, 24 Mei 2012

About Desktop Publishing: Foundry Abbreviations, Free Fonts, & Templates

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From Jacci Howard Bear, your Guide to Desktop Publishing
Last week I told you about a bunch of Publisher (& PagePlus) candy wrapper templates I'd made. I've extended the Publisher format collection with makeovers of 4 old Publisher 98 templates I'd created back around 2000-2001. About time, right?

For the Graduation and 50th Anniversary templates I mostly just resized them and changed the fonts to ones that come with Office 2010. I did much more of a remake on two baby announcements. About the only real similarity between the old versions and the new Modern Boy in Blue and Modern Girl in Pink is the placeholder text. There are PNG versions too (without the placeholder text, of course) that you can use in any software.

And here's what else is new and improved...


Type Foundry Abbreviations in Fonts
Got a bunch of fonts with BTN at the end of the name? Or, how about FG at the front or ITC? How about two typefaces that look almost identical but one has some extra letters tacked onto the name - are those letters important? Maybe. What you're seeing are foundry identifiers. They can help you find the right version of a font among a bunch of lookalikes.

Not all fonts have them and for those designers or foundries that use them, they may not use them on all their typefaces. And if that's not confusing enough, there are a few cases where certain letters as a prefix mean one thing and as a suffix it's something else. This Prefix and Suffix Identification Chart may help you figure it all out.

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Birth Announcements With Notes on a Cork Board
Notes on Cork Board CollectionI spent plenty of hours pulling this collection together. I hope you enjoy these printables for candy wrappers and cards. It would have taken even longer if I'd had to create the notepaper and pushpins from scratch. Fortunately someone had already done that and provided them free of charge.

Check out the links on page one to find out where I got the images as well as the very nice free font that I used to make these birth announcements for boys, girls, and twins.

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4th of July
4th of July ProjectsI've updated some of the 4th of July (US Independence Day) project resources including makeovers on... yep, the candy wrappers. This time they are wrappers for roll candy. Make your own sweet firecrackers!



 


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