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Fonts Explained If you're using PostScript fonts (and for the sake of consistent type, I hope you are) then you may not have the screen fonts installed properly. PostScript fonts come in pairs; each has a screen font and a printer font. If one only has the printer font installed then the computer system will draw upon the printer font for information on how to display a font on-screen. It's not a pretty picture and your fonts will look very jagged and barely recognizable at all. The second possibility is that you're not using the Adobe Type Manager (ATM) software. Because screen fonts contain bitmapped information and come in a few representative sizes (most screen fonts come with a few font sizes like 10, 12, and 14 point), they don't look very smooth when you use sizes larger than the representative sizes. ATM is a piece of software that can be set to smooth the jagged edges of your fonts. You can also set ATM to display all of your text with very soft edges for an even more aesthetically pleasing appearance. A "lite" version of Adobe Type Manager is supplied
with all of the latest versions of the Macintosh Operating Systems and
often comes packaged with Adobe software like Illustrator
or Photoshop. You can purchase a
"deluxe" version of the software for approximately $70. Visit
Adobe's website at www.adobe.com. Tip: Want info on Graphic Design classes near you? Visit our guide of top design schools.  Some
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you're a designer working with a friend or coworker on their computer
system (Macintosh or Windows) and you realize that their fonts look different
from yours. They're the same typefaces but theirs look much better than
yours do. Theirs have nice even edges while yours seem to be straight
from the pyramids in Egypt; built with little steps of stone. What's the
deal? Do they have more expensive fonts than you do? A better monitor?
No, I doubt it but there are two possibilities that I can think of.
