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Okay. Thanks.<br />
- Jo.<br />

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Can common Mac fonts (Palantino, Espy Sans, Helvetica, New York, Times etc..) be downloaded anywhere for free (in which case, does anybody know where?), or are they only available on Font CDs?<br />
Thanks.<br />
- Jo.
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Can common Mac fonts (Palantino, Espy Sans, Helvetica, New York, Times etc..) be downloaded anywhere for free (in which case, does anybody know where?), or are they only available on Font CDs?
Thanks.
- Jo.

Font downloads

A font is a particular size, weight and style of a typeface. Each font is a matched set of type, one piece (called a "sort") for each glyph, and a typeface consists of a range of fonts that share an overall design. With the advent of digital typography, font is frequently synonymous with typeface, although the two terms do not necessarily mean the same thing. In particular, the use of "vector" or "outline" fonts means that different sizes of a typeface can be dynamically generated from one design. Each style may still be in a separate "font file" -- for instance, the typeface "Futura" may include the fonts "Futura roman", "Futura italic", "Futura bold" and "Futura extended" —- but the term "font" might be applied either to one of these alone or to the whole typeface.

Fonts Typography

Apple's early computers ran on a variety of operating systems, including a Pascal version and one based on CP/M, before releasing its ProDOS with the advent of its 16-bit computer. With the release of the Lisa, which had its own OS, Apple and computing entered the graphical age; it was followed by the Macintosh, which offered a series of "System" operating systems. Other Mac operating systems included PowerPC until Apple acquired NeXT and folded it into the Mac OS. Current operating systems for Apple devices are Mac OS-X and iOS.