Several are available for free from Microsoft , or for a modest price from Adobe . Anti-aliasing is a method of smoothing a character's jagged edges by slightly blending the character's pixels into the background color. Microsoft provides a Font Smoother for free, and AdobeType Manager 4.0 includes the Smooth Font Edges on-screen option. Smoothing should improve the legibility of most of the large characters used in computer-generated presentations. Some measurement esoterica.
Type is measured in points.
Well, there are 12 points per pica. Ask a silly question . . . Metric type measurements, however, are increasingly common. For example, in the US, the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms requires that the alcohol concentration of wine must appear in at least 2 mm type on the label. Use with discretion Color is a very useful graphical tool that can enhance understanding of contents.