#fonttutorial

Would you rather see a clip to walk you through it? You can do that here! 

We are so close now! We just have to install the font on your computer! 

Double-click on the file named ‘yourfont.ttf’

It will show a pop-up box asking if you want to install the font

select install font

this should automatically put it into your font library on your computer

Open up a word document (or illustrator/photoshop- whatever works for you) and let's test it!

Write a sentence, and see if you can change your font to your created font by looking for the name in the drop-down menu.

If you cannot find it, try closing the document and launching it again, as sometimes it needs to restart to pick up the new font.

Some programs are really finicky with the new fonts and take a bit of hunting to find them

Keep in mind that if you see some odd boxes or circles forming while you type, it could be because you did not create that character in your font

*This step is optional! This is only if you want really refined letterforms.

 Now we have to go in and make them each perfect! In order to do this, we are going to ‘redraw’ each letter. 

Select your favourite drawing tool. For this tutorial I am going to use the blob tool. Its not the most ideal tool for sleek looking letters, but today we are having some fun!

Make sure that the appropriate ‘Refined’ layer is placed over the top of the layer you’re working on, and turn on the letter you’re going to redraw.

you can turn the letters off and on to your hearts content in the layers panel

Find the font you want to download. I usually use dafont, they have most of the popular ones and their site hasn't given me and issues with unsafe downloading

The download will start at the bottom of your screen, once it's completed downloading, right click the arrow and click "show in folder"

when the folder pops up, the new font folder should be highlighted, double click it and you should get this window, double click the TrueType font file.