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by Mabelle

Click the name of the font to download the zip.

Font name: Amaze
Suggestion: Use with a photo where a child is in a “learning” environment – at play, in school, etc.

Font name: For My Lover
Suggestion: A photo of a child in a state of wonder.

Font name: A Yummy Apology
Suggestion: Use with a photo where a parent and a child are are captured in a “bonding” moment.

The Font Thing is one of the best font management utilities I have come across in all my years of working on computers (read my first article about it, click here). It's the only font management software I've ever used for seven years running. It's small, it's easy to use and absolutely nothing beats the price of “free.” NOTHING.

If you missed ScrapMeet2 and your free CD containing The Font Thing, click here to download the software - it's small (1MB, zipped), it doesn't eat up much memory and it's going to be a permanent "fixture" inside your computer for the rest of your life! :)

The Font Thing is the most effective tool to help bridge the widening gap between the tons of fonts you'd like to use vis a vis, your computer's processing speed. Who said you can't have all the fonts you want because it would slow down your computer? This handy little utility would enable you to view, “test print,” install and uninstall fonts with just a click – without passing through the Font commands of your Control Panel folder ever.

As I have said during the ScrapMeet Two “seminar,” try and uninstall (backup!) all the unnecessary add-on fonts you have inside your computer. Leave the ones you use regularly – “regularly” means font types you use almost on a daily basis. Uninstall SYSTEM fonts (fonts that Windows uses in running your computer) at your own risk. Microsoft suggests you leave them in your system. To know which fonts (System Fonts) NOT to touch, click here.

After you have “purged” your system from all the add-on fonts you have, use The Font Thing. From hereon, let it handle the installing, uninstalling or printing of few words or two. Let it do what it does best – manage your fonts in the best possible way.

Here are three different font types (all "sugary sweet!) to help liven up your scrap pages. “File” them in your own personal font folders, manage and view them with the help of The Font Thing. I am also enclosing some great quotes you can print for your journaling. Three of these quotes use the same fonts featured in this page. Copy and paste the following quotes and change the font accordingly. Liven up your layouts with the right fonts! Enjoy!

Knowledge speaks.
Wisdom listens. - J. Hendrix
Suggestion: Use with a photo where a child stares straight at the camera

I have found that if you love life,
Life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
Suggestion: Use with a photo where the subject is smiling with pure joy in her eyes.

Be who you are and say what you feel,
because those who mind don't matter,
and those who matter don't mind.
- Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
Suggestion: Use with a photo of a teary-eyed child or a child who has just finished crying/her tantrum.

A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.
- Ara Parasheghian
Suggestion: A child doing sports.

The meaning of life is to find your gift,
the purpose of life is to give it away.
- Joy J. Golliver
Suggestion: A photo of friends doing something they enjoy together.

I don't measure a man's success
by how high he climbs but how high
he bounces when he hits bottom.
- George Patton
Suggestion: Personal journal. A photo of you AFTER a major disappointment

(My personal favorite! It's like "Only in darkness can you see the light of the stars." - beautiful!)
People are like stained glass windows:
they sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when the darkness sets in
their true beauty is revealed only
if there is a light within.
-Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Suggestion: Personal journal. A photo of you AFTER a major disappointment - you, surviving.


Here's some basic info about typefaces if you are seriously into fonts.
		Fonts are specific variations (like italic, bold, Roman) of one major typeface. Times is a typeface. Arial is a typeface. Arial bold is a font. For example, the typeface family Helvetica includes more than 30 different fonts among which we can list Helvetica, Helvetica Condensed, Helvetica Compressed, Helvetica Extended, Helvetica Black, Helvetica Light and many others plus all the fonts derived from the declination of each of these into the plain (Roman), italic (oblique), bold, and bold italic styles. Technically speaking, each one of the above is a different font. In the every day use and normal language we have come to accept the word "font" also as a substitute of the word "typeface". Fonts can e subdivided in two general visual categories: "Serif" and "Sans-serif".
Serif fonts have curls, small appendixes at the end of each letter. From the online dictionary of Merriam-Webster's "any of the short lines stemming from and at an angle to the upper and lower ends of the strokes of a letter". These appendixes have the purpose of helping the reader's eye connect all the sequence of letters. Serif fonts are mostly used in newspapers and books when text is small and tight. Serif fonts include: Times, Palatino, Garamond, Century Schoolbook, Book Antiqua, and all other fonts characterized by tiny appendixes at the end of their forms. Sans-serif fonts (from the French word "sans" that means without) are all those fonts which have letters with straight lines and no curls or appendixes. Their letterform is neat, defined, clean. They are mostly used for titles, captions, callouts, and in general any time there is not too much text and readability is an issue. Sans-serif fonts are definitely more readable than Serif fonts. To read more about fonts, click here.

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