If you are in the mood for a cat metaphor for fonts and letters to explain this, check here. OTFs tend to have richer glyph abilities. While these two file types are very similar, OTF fonts are sort of 'smarter' and can do things like know to put a special merged 'th' character in place of a t and an h, or automatically adjust spacing. Remember to save the file you're working on first! Note: if you have the software open and install a new font, you'll need to restart the software in order for the new font to show up. These are typically TrueType fonts ('TTF') or OpenType Fonts ('OTF').
One of the selling features, for me, of Silhouette Studio is the fact that it works with any font that's installed on your computer. Where to get them? What's in a font file? What about the different font formats? So many questions! We won't be able to cover everything, but hopefully this month's session will give you some basic knowledge and tools to make your scrapbook titles a little more exciting.
Now that we have the basics under our collective belts, it's time to dig in to the fonts.
