Working with type technically

- [Instructor] You might be really excited…to use a nice-looking font that you've picked out…especially for your e-learning project,…and that's great.…But before you go crazy using an unusual font…throughout a project,…they are some technical considerations…to first take into account,…so you can be sure your project appears as you intended.…It's important to know the difference…between web-safe fonts and web fonts.…So here's what I mean.…There are two places to think about…what fonts are available.…The first is the fonts on your computer.…

When you sit down to create something in Photoshop,…or Captivate, or Storyline, or whatever,…you have a list of fonts available to choose from.…These are often called system fonts.…For many people, the available system fonts they have…are the ones that came installed with their computer.…If you want to use other fonts,…you can go out to a place like Typekit,…or Font Squirrel, or Google Fonts and pick out a font.…If you're using Typekit with Adobe Creative Cloud,…you sync that font to your computer…