I've been learning graphic design for the past 1 year and whenever my posters look decent , the typography i do on it reduces the quality of it ,iv been experimenting with typography a lot but how do i get better at it ??

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Can someone check my kerning please?

Hello all!

I've been looking everywhere for fonts and have become pretty overwhelmed by the endless amount of them. I'm currently looking for a font or fonts to use on my portfolio. I want to convey professionalism through typography while communicating my creativity and friendliness. Does anyone know of any that would meet my goals?

I like trendy fonts that I see on social media, but I want to remain cautious of fads. I've looked at Adobe, DaFont, and Envato.

Thank you for reading my post. Any response is greatly appreciated! Until then I will keep looking. If you'd like me to go into more detail, I can do so in a comment.

So I'm going to be teaching typography 101 to uni kids next semester and I wanted ideas of how I can teach my students the basics of type through fun assignments. I want to change it up. So far they learn the anatomy, what's kerning, leading etc. but I wanted some fun assignments that can help them choose appropriate fonts as well. Any help would be much appreciated!

(P.S. I'm just starting out teaching please be kind!)

I'm planning on publishing a book next year, and I want to use Garamond, but I can't find a real answer if Garamond is free for commercial use.

I know EB Garamond is, but the — used there (especial non-breaking character, don't have it on my phone) is WAY too long and looks bad.

Adobe Garamond looks nice, but doesnt have that symbol, also idk if it's free...

And I just got recommended Garamond Premier, which it seems to be free for commercial, but I havent checked either if it is, or if the symbol exists in it.

So, the question is: Is it legal to print a book using Garamond? Or will I need to use one of the ohers and replace the — with garamond's?

Hi, is this the right place on Reddit for experts on glyphs?

For many years on the Apple keyboard, I've typed Option-K to produce a ˚ character. Only when doing some text processing and not matching as expected, did I realise there is a second character º which I can produce on the same keyboard with Option-0 (zero).

I'd like to know what is the correct character to indicate degrees Celsius. (And optionally, if it's not one of the above, how is it entered using an Apple keyboard?)

I'm now using it as default wherever I can, even switched windows/firefox/office apps/google suite apps etc. to it.

Very clean, clear, neat, readable,

The funniest 11 minutes on choosing a typeface possible: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14293320/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

I’m an amateur with adobe illustrator but I want to learn to make custom logos and manipulate font however I’m feeling really overwhelmed at where to begin. Does anybody know how and where I should behind? What things to help with practice. No matter what I make looks ridiculous.

Throwaway account.

Sorry, another poster with the same issue, but the other threads were different circumstances/offering contradictory advice.

TL;DR: I wrongly assumed that 'self-hosting' font files is pretty much the same as embedding Adobe fonts. I uploaded font files to my Wix website to avoid coding, and now FontRadar are asking me to pay up.

Despite removing the font and explaining it was a genuine, but naive error, they're asking me to still pay for past use. I make 0 money, get no views, and I'm not sure how else to proceed. I tried to contact Adobe support but spent all day going round in circles with 8 different advisors.

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I have a Wix portfolio website that has been live since about early October.

I got an email 2 weeks ago from someone at Font Radar, on behalf of a foundry, flagging me for not having a license for one of my fonts. They sent a few polite reminders at first, then gave me the 'You have 7 days to reply' spiel.

Stupidly, I told them the honest truth.

• I have an Adobe license. I use it every day. I'm also building a Wix website.
• Tried adding an Adobe font to Wix site but could only do it via HTML/CSS. This is quite tricky to do on Wix so I looked for a workaround.
• Downloaded the font from another site, assuming hosting it myself was the same as embedding with code. I naively assumed the embed code would somehow include the font files. I also thought that my general Adobe license would cover this use (not understanding that the issue is with 'self-hosting')
• Uploaded the font to my Wix website. Published site cos I desperately need work.
• Two months later, Font Radar emailed me about a license violation.
• I didn’t realize adding font files to a website required a separate license, assuming my general Adobe license was sufficient. I was genuinely unaware. On the Adobe Fonts tutorial for 'Adding fonts to your website,' it does not mention anything about separate licenses or policy.

I explained this to the FontRadar rep and she completely misread. She said 'being aware of the policy but not following it is still infringement.' Like, can you not read? I said I was not aware of the policy, I was just aware of the method of implementation, via embed.

No, I shouldn't have downloaded the fonts from another website. Yes, I should definitely be more vigilant in the future. Designer of 6 years and never had an issue like this.

Bottom line is: I'VE MADE ZERO CENTS. I've gotten zero work since publishing, I get maximum 15 views a week on my website. I'm basically homeless. What do they even have to gain?

Do I ignore? Should I pay?

Any advice is welcomed. Thank you.

Trying to find some Thicker fonts in the Style of Arial Black but monospaced. It is for onscreen text items and to center need a monospace font. Need the fonts to be a normal type of font, IE no handwritten/typewriter/etc. I have looked on few sites but found only a few examples of monospace with heavy weight.

I am hoping to be pointed in the right direction for possible options. I already looked on google and a few other sites. Any help would be appreciated. thanks.

CMU (Computer Modern Unicode) at sizes < 16px liiks very weird and unnatural. Serif starts to look too thin and too round, and typewriter text becomes awfully aliased.

Is there a way to fix it? Is there a version that supports as many glyphs that doesn't have this problem? Why does this occur?

sorry if this is the wrong sub, in which case please direct me to the right one.

Hello my fellow font fans,

So I originally wanted to do a type/font from handwritten letters via a pen, just scanned in initally a while ago. I never got around to finalizing the font into anything. [Even though I did scan the font and export the letters as a. PSD .abr brush. Was too time consuming to use efficiently**]

At this moment, I now I have a touch laptop with the Adobe Suite installed. For me to directly turn a drawn letter in Adobe Illustrator into a font, what would be the most efficent progeam for this? [I would essentially ust be using my Microsft Surface Pen to draw in the letters in AI and convert to a font** I just wanted to use the brush tool to draw the letter then export the paths as indivually letters. I would also like to include the extra characters and glyphs, etc. ]

I started drawing my own comic a little while ago, and I realized that most of the fonts are actually copyrighted. I decided to make my own as I would save a lot of trouble

I originally wanted to just draw them in Krita, but I found out that even if i did, I don't know if I could export them and make them into an actual font. Would that be possible? I'd most rather do it with krita if i can, since I'm familiar with it

And one more thing, if I decided to use an already existing font like Wild Words as a base to "trace" my own font loosly, but making it different, would there be any legal trouble?

Hey everyone,

I’m working on creating a typeface in the anti-design style that matches the chaotic and experimental vibe of 100 gecs. I’m aiming for something unconventional, essentially breaking the rules of traditional typography.

Do you have any references, suggestions, or favorite fonts that lean into this kind of style? Any resources, designers, or examples would be super helpful!

Thanks in advance!

I love using minion condensed as a display font but I am looking for variety. Are there other fronts in that realm I should consider? I think Georgia looks nice too. A lot of more modern fonts end up looking either too wacky or too fancy. Minion’s ‘y’ specifically is nice. I like that it can have that old apple ad feel but still look contemporary.