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Windows Fonts Are Very Expensive!

Started by Whizbang, August 27, 2007, 17:38 hrs

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Whizbang

The one thing I miss in Win95 is the Lucida Calligraphy Font.  I discovered that Microsoft no longer has the downloads for their fonts and private sites are charging ridiculous rates for fonts.  Even the FREE windows fonts sites that I have found now re-direct to the pay sites.  The Lucida Calligraphy Font sells for $24.99 on site I saw with the whole Lucida set going for $174.99!  Zonkers! I have a really hard time believing this is real!  I am going to get out my old PBell 95 instalation disk and extract the cabs to get the fonts.  Does someone know where the Lucida line is for free?

Whizbang

I have been digging through my 95 and 98 disks and have plucked out a few fonts, including Lucida Calligraphy.  I had not realized how many of them that MS had simply dropped.  Encarta, Works (several series), Quicken, Prodigy, all have added fonts.  Until MS dropped the downloads, most fonts were free, but not anymore.