Fonts

Hello everyone

I have recently started a new job and made them buy me a mac.
My predecessor however was working on a PC and has designed lots of things using 'Microsoft Sans Serif' font!!

I have been looking all day on the web for a download of the font but can't find it anywhere.

Does anyone know if it is possible to use this font on a mac and if so where I might find it.

Thanks in advance

is anyone else really attached to the font?

i subtly and slowly over a few years changed all of our documentation from times new roman to arial. you could probaby do the same (probably to arial rather than helvetica to keep everything easier to manage on all platforms).

"Designing" with MS Sans Serif is just a bad idea, IMO. I would just go with a change to Arial. It is barely noticeable to the average person.



MS Sans is the top and Arial is the bottom.

'Designing', 'MS Sans Serif' and 'Arial' don't got together

Helvetica Neue is the professional's serif font of choice.

Alexis said:

'Designing', 'MS Sans Serif' and 'Arial' don't got together

Helvetica Neue is the professional's serif font of choice.

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I agree, I work in publications and Helvetica Neue is our serif font of choice.

Alexis said:

'Designing', 'MS Sans Serif' and 'Arial' don't got together

Helvetica Neue is the professional's serif font of choice.

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sure it does, when you happen to be designing a clean non-offensive website using existing ms office tools (where you won't normally find helvetica) for an office setting, arial is the way to go.

Alexis said:

'Designing', 'MS Sans Serif' and 'Arial' don't got together

Helvetica Neue is the professional's serif font of choice.

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hehe, I would have to agree.
I only suggested Arial since I wasn't sure what it was going to be used for. Since MS Sans was used, I figured it had to be an inter-office thing and why I suggested Arial as a replacement.

any windows font works in OS X

I think that's the answer you are looking for.

Are you designing for web or print - you didn't say.

As Alexis said, Helvetica Neue is a far better font family with much more scope for weights and style

If your using Arial as your serif font and you work in a graphic studio or own your own, upgrade your fonts becuase Arial is standard only in web design, I have been a designer for over 15yrs and I have never used arial

How do you get a font into all relevant applications once it has downloaded?

Where do I drag it?

Sorry to sound thick and Merry Xmas to all.

cameronryan said:

How do you get a font into all relevant applications once it has downloaded?

Where do I drag it?

Sorry to sound thick and Merry Xmas to all.

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If you only plan on using a few fonts then Font Book comes with Os X

If you have a large font library, FontBook is no good, Linotype's Fontexplorer is great and free

Well I've downloaded one font called SF Movie Poster and it downloaded in a few seconds - but now what?

I'll try Fontexplorer too but shouldn't it simply be a case of dragging it somewhere where it will be recognised in Word, i-movie etc...?

cameronryan said:

Well I've downloaded one font called SF Movie Poster and it downloaded in a few seconds - but now what?

I'll try Fontexplorer too but shouldn't it simply be a case of dragging it somewhere where it will be recognised in Word, i-movie etc...?

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Double click the downloaded font file then click on install bottom right of font window. It will be put into your font collection in font book. iI you want all users to be able to access the font drag it into the computers collection from your collection in font book.
Have a great day.

^ Thankyou