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jetdv wrote on 5/15/2008, 5:56 AM
On your computer, go to START - CONTROL PANEL - FONTS. Now go through the process to add a new font. Once the font is installed on your system, Vegas should see it.
Steven Myers wrote on 5/15/2008, 6:16 AM
Drag (or copy) the font file into the C:\WINDOWS\Fonts directory.
tas9195 wrote on 5/15/2008, 7:23 AM
Thanks guys, sometimes things are so easy you look right past it
Rory Cooper wrote on 5/15/2008, 7:57 AM
Use x fonter its for free it allows you to view compare and install.If you have a separate drive for fonts click on that drive in x fonter and fire up Vegas and that typ face will be available in all your editors graphic 3d etc
When u r finished close it so you don’t have to install crap loads of type faces


busterkeaton wrote on 5/15/2008, 8:42 AM
I just saw the documentary Helvetica.
http://www.helveticafilm.com/

It's worthwhile for editors to check out. It's a nice little intro to the use of type and the mindset of some of the top graphic designers. It gets a little deep in the woods by the end of it, but the beginning is very useful.

It's amazing how much of our world is in Helvetica.


I also learned because of their use of big chunky fonts and lots of white space and clean design, Modernist graphic design of the 50's and 60's is a good source of ideas to steal.
Steven Myers wrote on 5/15/2008, 12:53 PM
lots of white space and clean design

During my 15 minutes in the newspaper biz, I had to start paying attention to this.

Over the centuries, humans have figured out that some things work and some things ain't. Some fonts seem like fun today, but look stupid, dated, cluttered or even <aak!> illegible tomorrow.

Some fonts always evoke positive human response. Experimentation has shown that our species is pretty dang predictable and that Helvetica always works.
tas9195 wrote on 5/15/2008, 8:43 PM
What the fx, thanks for the x fonter tip it worked great and was easy to figure out
Rory Cooper wrote on 5/15/2008, 10:40 PM
Great

The interesting thing about text is the negative space between the text, some folks try to make the text as big as possible getting rid of negative space

But the negative space allows the eyes to see the positive and to digest the text so less negative space = less legibility also if you have text immediately followed by some fast random movement the brain loses the text, no time to digest the text. A fact that my hyperventilating bosses fail to see

O let me shut up and move on

Thanks for the Helvetica state of the ark stuff link busterkeaton
Grazie wrote on 5/16/2008, 3:45 AM
More p o s t s like BK's

. . p l e a s e

Grazie