One solution? Buck up and pay for some beautifully made premium fonts.
#BEST PREMIUM FONTS FREE#
Free fonts are all well and good, but because the entry point is $0.00, there are a few issues that arise: mainly, quality can be substandard and overuse of the same well-designed fonts can be rampant. You will definitely see an increase in the quality of your work, and it will also make your job easier.Us designers…. So you see, there are so many advantages to using premium fonts, that it’s really well worth the investment. Name me one free font that comes close to the quality of this font. It comes in several weights, and has close to 500 glyphs. It’s classic, elegant, stylish, poetic and utterly gorgeous. Heroe (Spanish for hero), is what happens when Didone gets fancy. This multi-awarded graphic designer has a background in mathematics and calligraphy and considers type design as an exact science. (I’m just waiting for a logo design order that needs this font so I can justify the purchase.) It’s by one of the greatest font designers of all time, Masimiliano Sproviero. The lowercase letters give you the most alternates – there are dozens of stylistic & contextual alternates for each one. The ornamental ascenders and descenders provide almost unlimited options, while avoiding conflicts or overlaps. You can change the level of ornateness by choosing from thousands of glyphs. Unlike other ornate scripts, it’s still very legible. I fell in love with Adios Script (designed by Alejandro Paul) when it was released. Since then, it’s been a favorite of graphic designers everywhere. It was designed by Hannes von Döhren in 2010, so it’s fairly new, and was awarded by The Type Director’s Club in 2011.
#BEST PREMIUM FONTS PROFESSIONAL#
Just look at that letter O! It comes in several weights and is really great for professional typography. To demonstrate my point, I’m using three premium fonts to show you just what you get with a paid font.īrandon Grotesque is one of the most elegant of the geometric sans serif typefaces. This is where the fun is, people! And no, you don’t get that on free fonts.
#BEST PREMIUM FONTS SOFTWARE#
If you have Photoshop or Illustrator, or any software that is open type aware, you will get access to all these alternate glyphs, or swashes and flourishes and sometimes even ornaments. That’s why two designers can use the same font for the same word and come up with different looks. One of the top reasons why I use paid fonts is because of the alternate characters and styles, or glyphs. And who would want a commonly used font on a brand identity design? Extended characters and glyphs! Yes, there are actually a few good quality fonts that are free, with big glyph sets, proper kerning, hinting, true italics, range of weights, etc. And really, if you care about kerning at all, you won’t ever use free fonts in your designs again. If you work heavily with fonts, like I do, you will learn to notice the difference, no matter how subtle they may be. That’s how much effort goes into these premium fonts. Some of the best designers spend months on a single character. Paid fonts are well produced, and designers spend so many hours on the quality of kerning tables, hinting, testing readability and legibility, glyph ranges, ligatures, consistency across weights and styles, language support, and overall quality of each and every character. Premium fonts, or fonts that you have to pay for in order to use, are higher in quality (on average) then free fonts. This statement is true with fonts as it is with most things. It was a year or two later when I realized how wrong I was. I had no idea why people would actually pay $200 for a font when a similar free font was available.
When I first dabbled in graphic design, I used only free fonts, or those that came packaged with the software on my computer. Why pay for fonts at all when you can get free ones?
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