How to Choose & Use Fonts Stylishly
Welcome to another edition of Q & A Wednesdays — a new weekly VIDEO feature here at Simply Tiffany Studios that answers your digital scrapbooking questions. If you’ve ever wanted to pick MY brain on how or why I do digital this, pixel that, or scrapbook who-ha, you’ll love this series.
First, thank you all for sending in your questions via email or adding them in the comments. I enjoy learning about what you want to know and masterminding how I can share the answer in the Q & A. Isn’t that wild! So keep sending them in.
Q & A Wednesday for Today
In this week’s fabulous Q & A, you’ll learn how I use fonts “stylishly”. And what I mean by that is you’ll discover:
- Why some words look, or behave, better than others.
- Why some fonts have a higher price tag and why sometimes they’re worth the investment.
- Another difference between PS & PSE … and Microsoft Word.
- And what are Stylistic Sets and why you should care.
Here we go …
So now I want to know what is YOUR favorite font. Does it offer sexy stylistic alternatives? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
Speaking of sexy fonts with alternates, not all of them have a higher price tag. Check out this crazy, sexy, cool Bready font with 4 additional alternates separated into their own fonts. The entire Bready font family is only $5 bucks (for personal use only)!
About Tiffany
Tiffany Tillman is the Owner of Simply Tiffany Studios, an online resource with tutorials and page-design interviews for digital scrapbookers. She's also a Designer for Pixels & Company and professionally trains digital crafters developing e-learning content.
Laurel
Loved this video. I’m a PSE user….I would love to see how to do this in Word. Can I just copy and paste from there to transfer my new text back into PSE?
Tiffany Tillman
Hey Laurel! Unfortunately I could not drag or cut and paste the text from Word into PSE and keep the stylistic alternatives. They always changed.
But paper or hybrid scrapper could take advantage of the stylistic alternates if they’re accustomed to using Word.
Elisa
Tiffany!! I always knew about this feature, but not where to look, (& never searched for it when actually doing a page). Now I HAVE to play since I have no excuses now!
Elisa
Question for you…How do you get all those extra options to show in the Type panel. Mine looks more like this: http://thedailydigi.com/more-than-you-want-to-know-about-the-type/ where I have to click the flyout thing to see the swash, ligature, etc. options.
In your video you have the little boxes that you simply click. Did you change the toolbox to add the stylistic alternative there? Do I make any sense? lol!
I use PS CS6.
Tiffany Tillman
Hey dear! I didn’t change the toolbox to add the alternatives but I’d bet dollars to doughnuts that you’re using a PC. I checked around the interface and didn’t see a way to remove the extra options. There doesn’t seem to be any other way.
The screenshot hosted at TDD looks like it’s from a PC. So that’d would be my guess after my investigation. Am I on to something?
Elisa
That’s what I got after more searching too. The screenshots from Macs had the cool extra buttons, the PC screenshots didn’t. Wonder why? Boo!
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Eva
This was great. Really informative. Now I understand the costing behind the fonts, it makes it easier to buy them! Thanks again!
Tiffany Tillman
My pleasure, Eva! Glad the information helped. It’s always nice to know why we’re being asked to pay so much for a product.
Dreamy Nest? Not!
Tiffany – I just absolutely LOVE your videos. You have the most interesting topics and sound so fun! I don’t have PS… *sigh* I didn’t know that option was available in MS Word, but I’ll check it out. One thought, is to convert your word document to .pdf and then cut it out and use in a layout. Kinda a long way around it, but it’d work, I think.