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Using software bold vs. true bold fonts
Stop Faking It
What difference does it make whether I use
“true bold” or not?
In an experiment with true bold and fake bold, in my page layout
program I set some text in bold with and without the bold version
installed. See the illustration above the sidebar for the results.
I didn't have Gill Sans Bold installed so the software simply
fattened the Gill Sans font a little. After installing the true
bold version, the software used it. See the difference in appearance?
(The difference may not be as dramatic as this for some fonts.)
Not only
does the use of the actual bold or heavy weight fonts make a
difference in appearance, it can make a difference in what gets
printed. When having a document commercially printed, if the
bold version of the font is missing it is possible that the
text would not show up at all as bold (fake or true bold) when
printed.
Initially,
when I tried to create this example by first uninstalling only
Gills Sans Bold, my software kept trying to substitute Gill
Sans Bold Italic - the closest match it could find on my system.
If you see such oddities, it's another indication that you don't
have the right font installed.
Which program you use or how you set the trap
depends on the number of overlapping objects, whether you are
overlapping imported images, and the presence of gradient fills.
Those are topics for future lessons in trapping.
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