My Favorite Fonts...

Boy, can we fill up our computers with fonts. Anyone that does a lot of designing on your computer seems to feel we can never have enough, right? So many fonts are similar to each other, that we often have to go through and clean them out.

When you're looking for a specific font style to use on your project, you find a whole new world of fonts you have missed or never seen before.  So that one font download now turns into 20 font downloads.

Well I'm maybe going to add to that collection.  I have created a list of my favorite fonts, and I'm sure I've found some of these because of other people's lists of their favorite fonts...so the list travels.  Most of these fonts can be found on http://www.dafont.com, which is one of my favorite places to find fonts.

One question I have seen asked a lot in Silhouette forums is, "How do I install them in the Silhouette program?". There isn't any need to completely install into Silhouette Studio. If you install the font on your computer, it will show up in Silhouette. If you have your program already open when you install the font, you will need to close everything, and re-open the program to see that font.

Now let's do some font organization...

If you download a lot of fonts...haha, you want to be careful if you have a computer crash. You could do a backup of all your fonts in your Windows Font Folder, but that could be a problem later.  So what I suggest, is you keep all your fonts that you download in a folder named Downloaded Fonts in your Documents Folder.  That way a backup is easy and you know those are fonts you use often. You can install from there into windows.

There is another program I highly recommend. When we download fonts, there are often glyphs included.  What are glyphs? They are alternate letter styles or even graphic designs included with the fonts.  In windows you can view these by opening your character map.  That to me is a pain in the butt. So I downloaded a program, BabelMap, it is FREE.  I love working with it.  To learn more about it and download it, visit their website. It is especially nice if you have purchased the Samantha Font.  It is also nice when viewing a ding bat font without having to type each letter in.

Well, I hope you found some value in today's post and let me know if you have any questions.