our favorite fonts on the blog

Beebo said:
After reading Heather Greenwood's post about our favorite fonts for silhouette cutting on the blog, https://www.sweetshoppedesigns.com/index.php/2013/05/our-favorite-fonts-for-silhouette-cutting/, which by the way was an excellent post, I downloaded the AW Conqueror font. But the swashy one wasn't in the zip. Has anyone else dl it and did you get the swashy one?
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Those are opentype ligatures and not all programs can read them . . . in PS go the character palette and click on the little menu button (top right) . . . select opentype and a sub menu with options will appear

Only Didot and Sans have swashes . . .
 
I can also put together more detailed instructions with screenshots on all the opentype features tonight and post them in this thread tomorrow morning :)
 
that would be awesome Maria, I was wondering the same thing :)

if you post something on it, I'll update the blog with a link
 
Thank you for letting me know Maria! All I have is PSP and apparently it doesn't want to read the swashy font.
 
Beebo said:
Thank you for letting me know Maria! All I have is PSP and apparently it doesn't want to read the swashy font.
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I have good news! So I did some research for you and if you have Microsoft Office, those programs can access most of the OpenType features, but not everything.

I tested AW Conqueror out myself on Excel and it worked. I love Excel personally, but you can also use another program, like Word, and type the ligature(s) you can't access in PSP. Then, just save as a jpeg, open up in your Silhouette software, and trace.

Tips on how to use the layered fonts and different ways to customize the swashes are here:
http://analogpaper.blogspot.com/2013/05/diy-how-to-customize-your-diecut.html

It was way to long to post in this thread, but don't hesitate to let me know if you still need help :)
 
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