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A guide to creating word art with my Pinsetter font!

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A guide to creating word art with the Pinsetter font by Missy Meyer

    This guide written in 2017 originally appeared on missymeyer.com; due to some rearranging, I’ve moved it to this site with the rest of my tutorials and guides!   Hello, friends! I’ve had a number of people ask me for advice on how to lay out specific words and phrases using my Pinsetter font — with six options for each letter, it can be hard to choose what works best. So I figured I’d make a guide with some hints on how to get the most out of the. . . Read More!

Tech Help: When SVG files show up as HTML files on your Windows 10 computer!

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Tech help: what to do when SVG files show up as HTML files in Windows

  Updated for 2020!  This post is an update to my years-old article at Medium.  It’s refreshed to include Cricut Design Space users! Computers are weird, am I right? Sometimes they want to open up files with the strangest programs. One that I see come up a lot is SVG files, which are graphics … but Windows computers want to open them up with a web browser. The SVG files will even have a browser icon (Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, etc.) on them. So what’s going on? Well, Windows likes to. . . Read More!

Registering the Copyright for Your Fonts (USA)

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Registering the Copyright for Your Fonts

  I promised a few font designers that I would create a tutorial on how to register fonts with the copyright office, once I had it all figured out and had successfully completed some of my own registrations. Standard disclaimer: I’m not a lawyer or intellectual property professional; this is not legal or professional advice. This is just what I, as an individual content creator, have been successful with. This post won’t get into why you’d want to register your copyright; there are dozens of articles that cover why registering. . . Read More!

Creating a Font from Geometric Shapes: Part 4

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Creating a font from geometric shapes part 4

I’ve been slacking like mad on getting this final blog post written; you get near the end of making a font, and you just wanna get the dang font made, you know?! When last we spoke about this process, we’d finished constructing the letters, and it was time to move to spacing and kerning. Spacing is first – setting the optimum left and right margins for each letter. Fortunately, at least for the uppercase, you can figure out the best spacing for rounded letters like O and straight-sided letters like. . . Read More!

Creating a Font from Geometric Shapes: Part 3

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Creating a font from geometric shapes, part 3

Character construction continues! I’m not going to get into every single character to show how it’s made from either the basic geometric shapes, or from parts of previously made characters, but I do have a few to share that I thought were the more interesting items. First off, let’s not forget that there’s punctuation to create as well! Some seem easy (for the pound/hashtag, it’s just two wide strokes and two narrow strokes), but some are more of a challenge. Here I made the braces (also known as curly brackets). . . Read More!

Creating a Font from Geometric Shapes: Part 2

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Creating a font from geometric shapes, part 2

Welcome back! In part 1 of this series, we created a Font Creator file, and built our basic straight strokes. Now we’re going to make a few more basic shapes, and dig in with making some letters. Many of our letters can be made with those straight strokes, but you know there’s one more major shape that we’re going to need: We need a full-height circle as the base for the letter O. Then the letter O will serve as a building block for C, G, Q, and the zero.. . . Read More!

Creating a Font from Geometric Shapes: Part 1

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Creating a font from geometric shapes

Many times I’ve had someone tell me, “I’d love to make fonts, but I just don’t have the creativity.” So I’m going to make a new font that uses nothing but some basic geometric shapes—primarily circles and rectangles—as the building blocks. No lettering skills necessary, just a bit of math! (And I’m totally using my computer’s calculator for that part.) You should also have a basic knowledge of using a pen tool with curves. I’ll be using Font Creator for all of the creation of this one, since it’s my. . . Read More!

Font Tutorial: Renaming Font Files (for Duplicates and Organization)

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Font tutorial: renaming font files when you have duplicate names, or just for organization

Hey howdy hey, font fans! I’ve seen a couple of font questions come up lately, and have a solution for both. The questions are: – What do I do if I get a new font, but I already have a font installed with the same name? – Is there a way to rename my fonts so I can keep track of which ones have commercial licenses? This tutorial is going to show you how to change the name of a font inside its code, so that it displays with that. . . Read More!

Video Tutorials: Creating Color-Changing Mockups in Photoshop

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Color-changing mug mockup tutorial

Yo, party people! I was asked to do this particular set of tutorials in video form, so I’m breaking away from my usual text-and-screenshot methods and stepping out of the ol’ comfort zone! Here are a pair of videos covering how to take a photo of a plain white object and making it so you can change the color of that object (video 1) and how to create a Photoshop smart object so you can easily place an endless number of designs in your mockup (video 1). Part 1, 15. . . Read More!

Missy’s Font and Lettering Blog Post Roundup

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Missy's Tutorial and Blog Post Roundup

  I’ve written a lot of tutorials and blog posts, and they’re scattered here, there, and everywhere. So for my own reference (And for yours, too!) I’m creating this one central post where I can find all of my blog posts, tutorials, and general rants about fonts and lettering in one place.   FONT CREATION Creating a font from scratch, using all free programs – This was a very early post that covered some font-creation basics using Inkscape, GIMP, and FontForge. I don’t use those programs on the regular myself,. . . Read More!