Creative ways to save and share your family history. Font of
Knowledge You can inexpensively and effortlessly dress up your
heritage scrapbook journaling or your family history book with
computer fonts - but the choices are sometimes intimidating. A
word processing program such as Microsoft Word might come with
50 fonts; then there are font CD-ROMs and free font Web sites.
How do you pick lettering that enlivens your heritage pages
without distracting from the photos? Just follow our tips: Fonts
come in two kinds: A serif font has short lines resembling pen
strokes at the ends of the letters, and a sans serif font
doesn't. (Sans is French for “without.”) Serif fonts are
considered easier to read because those little lines “connect”
the letters, while sans serif fonts look more streamlined and
modern.