Speaking of fonts and alphabets...

[antiquechic]

I'm not fond of the idea of having to make a new layer for each letter of an alphabet set I buy. Do the designers here sell FONTS instead that are added to the text options and if so, how do you use them/load them?

[hguenthe]

I believe at the moment, the only font in the store is Mindy's Scratched Up font which is totally adorable!



I am on a Mac so for me, it was simply double clicking on the font and telling it to install. I am not sure anymore how to do it on a Windows machine but I am sure that it isn't very difficult.

Dafont.com offers a lot of free fonts that you can supplement your pages with.

I know that alphas can be overwhelming at the beginning but once you are a little more comfortable with how do to everything, I am sure you will fall in love with all of the advantages that alphas can give your design over fonts. Working with them will become just as easy as adding a piece of paper here or there.

Once you have them positioned the way you want, you can easily merge them together and then only have 1 layer to work with, or group them together which makes them a single folder in your layer list and then they all move together but are still able to ungroup and move individually.

[dugarner]

Heather, I just made my first page ever with alphabets, and I have to admit, while I love the effect, it was really time-consuming to cut out and copy all the unique letters in "Cards vs. Nationals"! Thank goodness for the repeating "a"s! Since I don't frequently title my pages, it's not such a big deal to me. But seeing how nice the letters looked (I used the chipboard alpha in Katie's Naturally Krafty Christmas kit) I was really impressed. I've got to remember I have those in my supply bin! And the good thing is . . . they never run out!

[Mozer]

You can download lots of free fonts on the web. I'm pretty sure there was a recent thread about favorite fonts. You might do a search and see what some good fonts to download will be.

Here's a link about installing fonts:
http://www.designerdigitals.com/digi...dows+system%3F

[teeleedee]

If you want you can get your own hand writting made into a font. Our very own Bailey a.k.a Starlite9711 has her own shop. Check it out HERE.

Tara

[antiquechic]

Originally Posted by Mozer

You can download lots of free fonts on the web. I'm pretty sure there was a recent thread about favorite fonts. You might do a search and see what some good fonts to download will be.

Here's a link about installing fonts:
http://www.designerdigitals.com/digi...dows+system%3F

Have I mentioned how awesome you guys are????

[Kathie]

Have you tried using the alphabet brushes? Then you can do it all on one layer. Not sure if that is what you are talking about--but having myself used the letters individually before I knew how to install and use the brushes, I just want to point that out in case. ;-)

[antiquechic]

..but I dont recall seeing alphabet brushes- I will go take a look. Thanks!

[teeleedee]

Katie has a ton of Alphabet Brushes. Here are a couple links.







Tara

[Kathie]

You can use the sets as stamps (and then you would use each on a layer) or as a brush (the abr file) and they can all go on one layer--and you can change the color and the size. LOVE alphabet brushes because they are most like the rubber stamps that I used on paper pages. ;-)