Practical Learning: Selecting a Font

1- The Fonts window should still be displaying.To see an example of a Serif font, find and double the Times New Roman icon (if there is more than one, then double-click the first) 2- Observe the ends of each character of the font and notice that they are fancy.Click Done to close the window 3- To see another example of a Serif font, find and double-click the Courier New icon (if there is more than one, then double-click the first)
4- Click Done to close the window

5- To see an example of a Sans Serif font, find and double-click the Verdana icon (if there is more than one, then double-click the first)

6- Observe the ends of each character of the font and notice that they are straight.Click Done to close the window

7- To see another example of a Sans Serif font, find and double-click the Haettenschweiler icon: If you don't have Haettenschweiler, then find and double-click the Arial icon (if there is more than one, then double-click the first)
8- Click Done to close the window

9- To see an example of a graphics font, find and double-click the Wingdings icon (if there is more than one, then double-click the first)

10- Click Done to close the window

11- To see another example of a graphics font, find and double-click the Webdings icon (if there is more than one, then double-click the first)

12-Click Done to close the window

13-Close the Fonts window and return to WordPad

14-Press Ctrl + A to select the whole text

15-On the Formatting toolbar, click the arrow of the Font combo box (the most left combo box) and select Times New Roman (if there is more than one, then select the first one)

16-Click somewhere in the selected text to loose the selection

17- Select the first line of text (Common Sense)

18- On the Formatting toolbar, click the arrow of the Font combo box (the most left combo box) and select Garamond

19-Double-click Introduction to select it 20- On the main menu, click Format -> Font...
21- In the Font combo box, scroll down and select Verdana

22- Click OK

23-Select How it Started
24-Right-click the selected text and click Font...

25- In the Font combo box, scroll down again and select Verdana and click OK

Serif, Sans Serif, and Graphics Fonts

By their appearance, fonts are divided in three broad categories. A font is recognized as Serif if its characters are marked with fancy ends. Examples of popular Serif fonts are Times New Roman, Courier New, Georgia, or Garamond. Serif fonts are suitable in printable formats. If you observe the characters of paragraphs in a regular book, you may notice that they usually use a Serif font.
A font is said to be Sans Serif if the ends of its characters don't display the fancy ends of Serif fonts. Examples of popular Sans Serif fonts are Arial, Verdana, Haettenschweiler, or Tahoma. Sans Serif fonts are usually used as headers of paragraphs or when users may spend a great deal of time reading. For example, most web pages display their text in Sans Serif fonts
Serif and Sans Serif fonts are used to display readable characters. The last category of fonts display graphics as non-readable characters. Examples of graphics fonts are Webdings, Wingdings, or Wingdings 2. You use graphics fonts if you want to display small graphics without having to use a drawing application.