README for Blank fonts
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These fonts are freely offered with NO WARRANTY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. USER ACCEPTS ALL RISK OF USE.

There is a Type 1 version, and a True Type version, both created on Windows operating system.

Install like any font.

These fonts have blank characters. That is, if you type something using a blank font, you won't see anything. But the cursor moves, and the characters codes are actually there. If you select the blank text, and chage to another font, you will see what you typed.

What does this do? Perhaps you have a document that contains some material you would like to "white-out" without actually deleting it. Change the font to Blank. Keep in mind that the metrics (character widths and heights) of Blank will probably be different than you other fonts, so don't expect things to align the same way.

Also keep in mind that Blank information can still be restored by changing the font, or by inspecting the source code of the document. DO NOT use Blank in an attempt to conceal private information! That doesn't work!

Why do this? Perhaps you have a document in application X, and you want to transfer it to application Y. But Y cannot import the X file type. If you have an image recognition application that can export to Y, you can try printing from X, then go from the printed image into Y. But perhaps the original X document contains information that will confuse the image recognition. In that case, temporarily change the unrecognizable X characters to Blank, then print. This saves you the trouble of whiting out the unrecognizable characters.

The True Type version does have one non-blank character, a rectangle, at the quote single base location (decimal code 130, hex 82, Unicode 0082). It was technically necessary to have a non-blank character, so I put it in a rarely-used location.
