How Fill Fonts Work: Fill fonts are created to fill in the hollow space within outline fonts to prevent the background from showing through the font. Fill fonts are usualy slightly smaller than the intended fonts outline but may also be oversized to create a border around the intended font to help seperate it from a background image. Another application for fill fonts would be to add decorations to the top layer of a font. Fill fonts can only be used within applications that allow multiple layers within the work area so fill fonts wouldn't work in programs such as word processors like MS Word or Wordpad. Fill fonts may not work with all applications in Windows, some fonts have characters that extend outside it's em-square, although the font may have been generated to allow it to display outside of this boundary display problems may occur within some applications. In some applications alignment problems may occur with the fill font in relation to the font(s) layered above or below it, some fill fonts have characters that are located to the right or left of that fonts basepoint, some applications don't recognize the left side bearing of a font set by its basepoint as part of that fonts spacing and will shift the fill fonts charcater spacing to the left side of the characters outline and cause a misalignment to happen. The only solution around this problem is to use a different program for your design work, Adobe Photoshop6 , Adobe Illustrator8, Adobe ImageStyler, and Paintshop Pro 7 all work well with fill fonts. To use fill fonts simply type the text using the first font as the base then select the next font style and add the same text on top the base font, then repeat the same with any decoration fills adding different colors and textures to each font. For questions and support with fill fonts go to www.fontmesa.com