To install the Algerian font, do the following: Double-click on the font file (Algerian.ttf) - a window with an overview of the font will open. To install the font, click on the «Install Font» button in the preview window that opens. After while the Mac checks the font and opens the «Fonts» program, the font is installed and available for use.
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Algerian traces its origins to the British foundry, Stephenson Blake and Co., in 1911. In the mid-1980s, URW digitized Algerian. The style in Algerian typifies the writing on signs in Spain and countries on the north coast of Africa, possibly reflecting the influence of Arabic calligraphers and signmakers. More decorative than its Latin counterpart, traditional Arabic calligraphy is characterized by an ornamental flavor used to enhance individual characters and sometimes whole pages.
Once downloaded, the font is available for use in all Office apps. Documents that you create using cloud fonts will render the same when opened in the Office apps listed in the table—without you having to embed them. This means that you can share content created in the latest versions of these apps without having to worry about font availability. Plain Times (long bundled with the Mac) is a apparently a knock-off of Times New Roman but I prefer it. An underappreciated font is AmourTendre, which is old freeware. That is much less offensive than Comic Sans. Microsoft’s core font package was nearly 100% ugly fonts (with Verdana, which is a pretty good web font only, as the exception. Algerian traces its origins to the British foundry, Stephenson Blake and Co., in 1911. In the mid-1980s, URW digitized Algerian. The style in Algerian typifies the writing on signs in Spain and countries on the north coast of Africa, possibly reflecting the influence of Arabic calligraphers and signmakers.
| File name | Alger.ttf |
| Styles & Weights | Algerian |
| Designers | URW Studio, 1985, (1911) |
| Copyright | URW Software, Copyright 1993 by URW |
| Font vendor | URW Type Foundry |
| Script Tags | N/A |
| Code pages | 1252 Latin 1 Mac Roman Macintosh Character Set (US Roman) |
| Fixed pitch | False |
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