This morning I found myself having to do a comic at work as a way of explaining to users how a new system would work. Powerpoint comes with a few balloon options but I wanted more - and I wanted them to be easy to get to.
I decided that the best way to have them would be as a font - so I went hunting.
You can download a great symbol font here that is made up of Balloons.
Here's what it looks like if you type the alphabet in upper and lower case, plus numbers.
Once you've downloaded the fonts and extracted the fonts from their ZIP files, right mouse click on them and choose Install (Windows 7). If you're using Windows XP, you'll have to go into control panel fonts and install them that way.
If you type a single letter in powerpoint, you'll be able to easily resize it and use it when doing comics. If you've got a graphics program like Corel Draw! then you'll find that it loads as a draggable symbol which is even better.
There's plenty of other great fonts available at http://www.free-fonts-ttf.org/true-type-fonts/
In particular, if you're looking for symbol fonts, try;
You'll find all kinds of symbol fonts on the site including;
- Aliens
- Animals
- A huge selection of Arrow Fonts
- Cards and Dominoes
- Food
- Fractions
- Several Keyboard Layouts
- A Cat Font
- Mapping Symbols
- Morse Code (x2)
- Nautical Flags and Semaphores
- Smileys
and lots more.
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