My brother actually thought that this was made using InDesign. I’m not saying it’s a great piece of work, but here’s to prove that it’s not always about the program you use, but it’s working with what you have. I made this using Microsoft PowerPoint, and I was surprised with what can be done on it-all these years, I never knew you could make a dotted line on it! I thought that it was only possible on some creative editing program. I find this font really pretty! It looks so dreamy (lol, is it because of the suggestion of the word dream above?), and simple yet elegant. This is one of the fonts I stopped at as I was scrolling. Gabriola, used in some typography practice as this blog post was in the making.
Let me take back what I said regarding the color scheme above-this is my favorite! I realized I used it in so many presentations because of that shade of green.
I find the regular one too thin so I usually bold it for presentations. Segoe UI, used in a PowerPoint presentation for Morality class. And, that is my favorite color scheme! I don’t know if it’s just me, but it fits whatever type of output made under the sun, be it an environmental brochure, infomercial on current issues, or algebraic word problems. I adjusted the spacing a bit (if I remember correctly, this was set on very tight). Gill Sans MT, used in a PowerPoint presentation for Algebra this school year. It’s tall, thin, and looks disproportional, and I mean this in a good way. Here are two more used in our magazine project for Journalism class.Įccentric STD, another font I discovered as I scrolled the fonts. I know that’s a really ugly-looking cigarette as two of my brothers already said so at separate situations, but I can’t draw to save my own life, so I don’t really expect anything from myself, haha. Even designers online (at least of blogs I read) claim they really like this font. I don’t know anybody who gives this font a thumbs down. Rockwell, used for a flash presentation in Computer class. I am honestly not the biggest fan of such fonts (as I prefer Sans Serif on the monitor or on paper), but you can never go wrong with Serif fonts for titles and the like! As I write this blog post, I am still scrolling and scrolling, and yes, every new font find on this netbook amazes me.įootlight Note MT, used in our joint Algebra and Trigonometry magazine project in Sophomore year. I’d like to share all the fonts I use for my school projects + typography-for-fun practices + PowerPoint presentations that are native to Windows, with hopes that anyone who may come across this post would find this useful. If you really just look at each and scroll the fonts of your system, you will see that they are not so bad after all, really. But during times when it is deemed impractical to do so (say, when you are working on an insertfilenamehere.pptx presentation and the Embed Fonts option never works, which always seems to be my forever dilemma in school projects), I have no choice but to stick to the fonts pack installed on the PC.īut is it really much of a problem? Well, fret not!
With the existence of a lot of font websites, it makes it so convenient for people to download and install fonts in a click or two.
But for a Windows plebeian like me (yeah, that’s what some Mac users call Windows users on tech forums and it’s honestly so annoying, who cares about operating systems when we’re all victims of marketing crap, really? Ubuntu for the win! Haha), it seems as if there are no pretty-looking pre-installed fonts available to suit our needs. There is an endless list to choose from, whether it be for some typography practice, a PowerPoint presentation, or some typewritten output. I admit, font-wise, Mac is a sure choice over Windows. Not very extreme though, but my font fascination caught up with me that time, like finding out how Futura or Didot is actually a native font in Mac or how American Typewriter will always be a sophisti-cute font.
Haha, I really don’t care, but anyway, long story cut short, I ended up on the Font Book application, and I was sort of blown away. Okay, all of this happened but of course, he kept a keen eye on every trackpad click of mine (omg, that actually sounds so creepy) because I just don’t meddle with other people’s stuff like that. Indeed, it was definitely invasion of privacy at its best ( insert evil laugh here, many thanks to the search option on the upper-right corner of the desktop) of a person who claims his personal life and outside-the-four-corners-of-school matters are top secret. It was a Macbook, and because I absolutely have no idea how it really functions (well, beyond doing some net-surfing or notepad-typing), I explored the applications and clicked random stuff I found on the desktop launchbar.
Yesterday during free time at class, because I was dying of boredom, I ended up borrowing Justin’s laptop.