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But mostly you'll never have to do that because brush tools have become much more sophisticated. Nowadays you can customize the size and shape of your pen/brush tip to make it look like anything from a felt tip marker to a ballpoint pen (Figure 3). Not only that, but you can customize stroke shapes. They don't have to have uniform width. You can make one, for instance, that starts thin; tapers up to full width; and then narrows again. (Figure 4). And you can save these stroke styles in your own stroke library for future use. The ultimate in pen/brush tools, however, is the pressure-sensitive tablet. With one of these handy gadgets you can draw strokes of variable thickness just by increasing or decreasing the pressure on the pen as you draw. Just like a real brush! And of course they're much easier to draw with than a mouse. So don't be put off by the apparent difficulty of curvy fonts. With today's tools they're just as easy as a sans serif. For more information, visit: www.fontlab.com