The fonts you use determine what your pages will look like. In this chapter
we’ll first clarify the meanings of words people use when they talk about
fonts.
Next we’ll examine the three kinds of fonts (internal, cartridge and down-
loaded) that you can use on your Star LaserPrinter 8111. We’ll cover the
particular sets of symbols you can choose for those fonts too.
Finally, we’ll find out how to load the printer with your selection of fonts.
FONT TERMINOLOGY Typefaces and fonts First, a few definitions. A typeface is a family of characters with the same
basic design. The artistic character design you choose establishes the “tone
of voice” for all your documents.
Several variables can characterize typefaces, including weight (light,
medium, bold), width (condensed or extended), and style (upright or italic).
Courier, for example, is a typeface family that includes the characters in both
Courier medium italic and Courier bold upright
Let’s consider these variables. Bold print is sometimes called “emphasized”
or “double-strike”. On earlier printers boldface is generated by printing each
character twice; dot-matrix machines print the second impression just a hair
below or to the right of the first one.
With the Star LaserPrinter 8111 you can have different stroke weights in two
ways, depending on which emulation you are using. You can have two
different fonts, storing and switching between a bold and a medium version
of the font. Or you can use just one font and set bold on and off with Escape
sequences. The latter way uses just half as much font memory.
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