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Fontmenu.com offers hundreds of original typefaces and font families
for Windows XP and more recent organized by categories and names.See full character map, download
free fonts samples, purchase online and get the fonts immediately. Fonts are optimized for :
- Windows XP
- Windows Vista a.k.a. Lomghorn (and OpenType Glyph Substitution technology)
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some questions frequently asked about fonts, and the answers
we where able to come up at the time.
Please remember, however, especially if you are new to computers, that
in no way Fontmenu.com can teach you the basic use of your system.
Neither would you expect a car gadget manufacturer to help you get a
driver's license. Please refer to your system supplier manual, or if
necessary hot line, if you feel some of the concepts we use are too
complicated.
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- How do
I install OpenType, TrueType and ATM fonts under Windows XP ?
- Open the
"Fonts" control panel, and click Files/ "Add". Then,
look for the font files where you copied or
unpacked them. Select them, and click OK. You may install several
fonts at the same time, simply by selecting them. You may also simply copy the TrueType and OpenType fonts into
it.
- Some of
the words you are using on this site are quite unfamiliar to
me.
Typography (the art of using type) is a real craftsmanship, and
it takes years to master. One of the first challenge to anyone
who really wants to venture in the world of fonts, is to the
font words. Please see our Glossary
for a quick course in font terminology.
- I want
a font made according to my specifications.
- Please contact us for a quote.
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- How can
I obtain a printout of a font?
- Just use
the evaluation versions provided on the site, to print at all
sizes and as you see fit. If you like the result, the full commercial
version is just a few clicks away.
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- In your
Martian font, you placed a dot above the glipnol character, and
forgot to put an accent above the weirdoo. It is unforgettable.
I am furious and you are just as stupid as a bunch of lunar dogs
! You should be whipped, and give me my money back, too, plus
maybe a little extra, because I suffered incredible damage to
my much sophisticated sense of intellectual properness and inherent
graceful sensitivity.
- We are sorry
not to know Martian as well as such a refined literate as your
highness. Please do not blow your disintegrator at us, poor ridiculous
clumsy uneducated filthy computer groomers. Please consider that
ignorance may not be such a crime, after all, and have mercy
for the less taught. If for any reason we committed a mistake
in transcribing your native language, be assured it is not intentional.
Please courteously provide us with the proper information, and
we will make sure appropriate updates are made. All we know of,
as humble and insignificant artisans, is the fonts craftsmanship.
It is not our fault, then, if the subtleties of a foreign language
do not strike us like light over the saint's head. However, we
are bending our knees to the more educated. Thank you for helping
us improve. At present time, our fonts have been
thoroughly reviewed, so they satisfy our customers. Some have
helped perfect already very nice fonts. But we appreciate
any additional suggestion!
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- Why are
you asking money for your fonts ? They should be free !
- There
is a strange curse around computer software, and especially fonts,
these days. Nobody would ever consider getting a movie for nothing, or
walking into a book store and demand a sample for free. For typefaces,
however, the matter is quite different. So many people consider
computer software piracy as no more than a light little mistake, that
eventually, some may indeed start considering software authors as
thieves, because they pretend to get a small reward for their job. Some
luminaries are even toying with the very strange notion that computer
software should only come free, and that any commercial distribution,
including shareware, has some analogy to a rip-off. Open source if
dandy when the tax payer has already footed the bill, and it sounds
legiti;ate that research conducted with university grants return to the
community. Fine and good, then, but why do they at the same time insist
to get paid for their lectures, or to get royalties from their books ?
Match Software is a small business based on shareware distribution.
Anyone can browse at our productions in the same way a reader could
read a book as many times and as completely as wished, before actually
paying for it. Please do not pirate us. If you feel a font is really of
use, please register. That small usage fee will help us continue
creating new original, exclusive and fine fonts for you. We sincerely
thank all users who have, through their registration, helped pay the
rent, the phone, and the electricity which powers our equipment while
creating all these fonts. Please continue to support the shareware
concept. It is the only way out of the commercial monopolies. Small
software companies defend your freedom to choose as much small book
publishers do : without them, big companies would have their way,
culturally and financially. Nobody would ever want that to happen !
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Non-Windows and old systems limited support
- In the
past, we have tried our best to support all systems and platforms,
sometimes going out of our way to accomodate little used platforms, or
systems that varied so often, it became impossible to satisfy end users.
Rather than to continue playing cat and mouse with esoteric software,
we have elected a very simple solution : all fonts available here are
sold for Windows XP and newer Windows systems. They may work under
other platforms with some efforts, but we do not guarantee they will.
If you plan on using our fonts on your machine, please take the time to
download one of the free evaluation packages and play with it, so you
are satisfied it is suited to your system BEFORE you pay for it.
- Now,
please keep a sense of humor, and consider that having chosen a box
that is not like any other may require some composure. After all, it is
a privilege to use a computer that most laymen will never be able to
buy, or understand. So live up to it. If you bought a Mac as a
fashionable fortune living statement, please seek a consultant to
install it for much less than what your butler costs, and consider
redesigning the room to match it's color. If you bought a Mac because
you already had an iPod, then imagine yourself trapped into a Reality
TV show where you are the son of a has-been hard rock
star, consider hardware as a disposable commodity and get a
bumped-up, supercharged Intel thingy. If being a Mac owner is a major
part of your life and spiritual belief, we bow to your act of faith and
pay tribute to an inspired soul. We still keep a shrine to the Mac 128
alive here, and a lot of these fonts are born under an Apple mouse
benevolent eye. This very text is typed on a Mac laptop, but please do
not tell mom'. She still believes I use an Hermes typewriter.
Macintosh OS X, Panther and Tiger, will in general recognize
immediately TTF fonts as their own, and the most recent versions gladly
accept OpenType. The rule of thumb is, as usual with an Apple machine:
if it opens by double-click, then it is compatible. ZIP compressed
files should be opened without any trouble for all our evaluation
fonts. Double click on the TTF in it, and OS X should not only show it
to you, but offer to install it. Like Bang & Olufsen remarkable
hi-fi systems, Macintosh personal computers are no longer the champions
of incompatibility, but of ease of use and cocooning smooth splendor.
With now an Intel heart, relish them not for their incongruities, but
for their elegance, in a world where PCs still often look like cheap
washing machines. You got yourself the Rolls Royce of personal
computing. Now, act accordingly, and be mercyfull as a prince : please
do not blame the calligrapher.
While the white boxes of Macintosh may have an angel
color, Linux is the fruit of many, many alchemists conconctions. You
knew it, did you not, before you installed that innocent looking Open
Source disk into that poor Windows thing ? Now, with its double boot,
it has become as strange as some old TV series and turned into an Igor reincarnate from past tomorrows. It would not like little angels but will probably relish the Halloween dingbats or Silbooettes.
Well, Linux is to computing what a revamped classic car is to a lot of
students : amazement, wonder, frustration, fashion statement, definitly
not the kind of thing a bimbo could drive. You might as well wear it
proudly. By the way, and this is a delectable detail, this page is the
result of work with an Open-Source editor, born under Linux, now
available identically to all platforms : Nvu. Vive la différence !
- Linux is
a real delight for the connoisseur : it comes in more flavors than
French wine or Indian spice. A true intellectual will wander the narrow
corridors of a Library with a daring console, ready to face any danger,
including snotty remarks in confidential forums and devilish system
collapse. Gentleman coders will not be afraid to compulse volumes of parchemin,
chasing the ever more elusive perfect fix to bugs as inventive as
snorkeling snarks in the shadows of processes only known by wondrous
wizards.
- Nostalgics of Dos and authentic CP/M Rimpoches will
find their promised land in cryptic sets of commands entered at
sundown, red-eyed by the midnight oil. Owlish figures will master
languages that to APL are what once was Arhameic to brand new Romans.
Shadows of a long line of programmers still slip through unknown
routines underneath ever more innocent looking user interfaces. All
that to say that it is humanely impossible to tell you in a nutshell
how to install fonts under 10 versions of dozens of published
incarnations of Linux. If you enjoy Linux for its complexity, and we do
believe it maybe more enlightening than becoming obese in front of the
TV, go right ahead and RTFM (Read The French Manual) to see what to do
with the files.
If you are forced by your IT manager to use Linux, then drop the
install problem on him. After all, he is paid to solve the consequences
of his choices, right ? Oh, no... I did not know... So, who is handling
data management now ? Uh oh. I see. A new merger ? uh... And the
strange guy with pimples there is supposed to replace the whole team ?
Oh yeah, right, lets keep it to adjascent cubicles...
You may also find that an increasing number of new Linux systems work
as nicely as Mac OS X by a simple double-click on the font file. Well,
after all, a Mac is also a Unix box (it would be highly improper to
look under the hood). - You may
yet be still flying a venerable OS/2 system, or an equaly sanctified
Windows 3.2 Intel 8088 biplan aeroplane over amazed kids. Perhaps using
Mac OS with original versions of Suitcase like would a violonist a
Stradivarius, for it has no modern equivalent. The author of these
impertinent lines still remembers a pompous visit, circa 1972, to an
IBM data processing center, where gracious ladies spent hours punching
cards to be fed by techno-priests into the Moloch behind a glass wall.
Cherish these relics of the past as they will never come back (nor will
the $1.00 corner street movie theatre ticket). Let us face it : Pascal
may have assembled a clock, some of us may have built a Radio-Shack
crystal radio, Apple may have created the first PC with a screen back
in the seventies, but kids today are born different. With two TVs, an
innumerable number of accessories for their game console, they change
cell phone more often than we used to buy 45 round vynil records. Soon,
they will have their blue tooth port implanted directly into the brain
and wonder how and why previous generations ever bothered to
memorize anything in their puny biological brain. That is, if we have
enough energy to power cell phones anymore. Can you picture yourself at
an exam without access to the net ?
- By the
time this will be published on the site, anyway, new events in the ever
accelerating world of cyberspace will have rendered these
considerations as obsolete as a 5 years old cell phone. So, have fun
and enjoy the ride. Good luck !
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- Acknowledgement
: Fontmenu.com, and "Match Software" are intellectual
property of Match Software. All other intellectual properties,
such as Trademark and Brand Names mentioned in this document,
belong to their respective holders.
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