It’s a wonderful way to enliven an invitation, greeting card, inspirational graphic, logo, headlines, stationery, resume, and so on. In this column, you’ll learn to use a variety of applications to add a special flourish to an important letter in a word-say, the first or last letter of a name-or to change the appearance of any amount of text. Thanks to the OpenType font format, the newest versions of everyday software (and the pro stuff) can tap into a multitude of alternate character designs if you know where to look. Fancy typography doesn’t require expensive software.
