I’ve been doing a lot of writing lately, and occasionally have need for unusual characters. Things like © ¢ ¼ ° all come in handy from time to time! Not all fonts have these characters, but the good basic fonts that come with your computer will. Figuring out how to print them is another matter! Some of you may be familiar with the ALT+0169
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The spacing between letters in a font is very important. Font Designers spend a lot of time getting just the right look they want, not only in the shape of the letters, but how each letter relates to the next. So now I’m going to show you how to screw it up! Sometimes you may want to adjust the spacing between letters for a
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It was just brought to my attention that many of you don’t know how to change the font size on your fonts listing in Photoshop and Photoshop Elements! Well, if you’re getting, let’s say… “of a certain age’”… like me, you need to know how to do this!! In either program, go to Edit> Preferences> Type In the Type Preferences dialog box that opens,
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This week, I’m turning from supplies toward TOOLS for you! By “tools” I mean things that you can use over and over again in your scrapping. They aren’t kit specific, but useful tools – like fonts, brushes, textures, styles, etc. First the fonts: The Awesome font is free for personal use at dafont.com. I thought it was awfully cute and perfect for a pre-teen
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Thanks to Jessica Sprague for sending out on Facebook a heads-up link to this site – FontSquirrel.com! I love to find a good font, and if it’s ok for CU, so much the better! I’m always looking for journaling fonts – things that are readable, approximate handwriting, and have enough extra characters to handle what I want to type. I found several here that
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