Finding And Using A Scrapbooking Font
In our scrapbooking circle, one of our favorite anecdotes to tell new members involves one of our founding friends who were actually one of the more vocal and aggressive ones to urge us in forming a club devoted to scrapbooking. We were all beginners then and we assumed that she was the expert one until one day comparing our first scrapbooks we discovered that she printed all her text by hand. They were very pretty and we assumed that she probably liked it that way so we remarked, "So you don't like the look of a digitized scrapbooking font huh?"
She looked positively bewildered and said, "A digitized scrapbooking font? What is that?" When we showed her what a digitized scrapbooking font was she was almost in tears, declaring that had she known, she would not have slaved over the texts which were actually very elaborate and took their toll on many late nights.
That story happened so many years ago and illustrates the fact that part of scrapbooking history told of a time when a scrapbooking font and letterings available on any PC began to replace the more tedious and laborious act of hand-styled writing and scripts. To us then, it seemed but logical that simulating a book chapter on a scrapbook meant typing that page on a computer and simply printing it out.
Today of course with the advent of digital or online scrapbooks ( a whole universe apart from our first scrapbook attempts of 20 years ago!) the emergence of a stylish and unique scrapbooking font makes all the difference in setting one's scrapbook apart from the rest. A scrapbooking font can be made to fit any kind of thematic or design choice and can sometimes be a wholly unique design in itself. Most fonts in a PC can be used as a scrapbooking font although it would be likely that if one were looking for originality, one would not find it among fonts that are virtually used by millions as well. A good source of fonts is online where one can download a scrapbooking font for free or with a fee for custom ones or those that have a copywrite. The variations for these fonts are just as endless as the permutations of scripts or the imaginations of their designers. There are fonts for any kind of thematic or visual design. Some may integrate the English alphabet into such foreign scripts as Japanese and Chinese calligraphy, Arabic lettering and even ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. But if it is originality or exclusivity that you want without the high price, your option would be to design or create your own scrapbooking font. Graphic designers can easily come up with their own unique fonts, drawing them by hand. If you do not have such skills, there is technology to help you out and you can begin by converting your own handwriting into a digitized scrapbooking font. There are software tools which you can download for free to convert human handwriting into fonts; they offer very simple tutorials as well on how to go about doing this
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