Font management and creation is a subject which has long been
shrouded in mystery. This chapter hammers out the truth about
typefaces and guides us into our first foray with fontforge
Fontology for the lazy existentialist  Tabitha sits back from
the screen and screws her face up again. "I don't like any of
these fonts!". She has been wrestling with the design of Pengwyn
Parc's new home page all morning.  Baz looks over her shoulder,
"We could download some new ones off the Internet, there are
loads of free fonts out there."  Tabitha tuts, "Yeah but most of
them are reverse-engineered rip-offs of someone else's design."
"So what?" Baz retorts "Fonts should be free."  "Yeah, but we
don't want to be using the same typeface as everyone else. Why
don't we design our own? Then it would always be unique."  "Can
you make your own fonts using Linux?" asks Ashlee, suddenly
interested in the conversation. "Having our own designer
typeface for our promo graphics would be really cool!"  "Yeah
sure," sighs Baz, "Using Fo