DIY Fonts

Posted by Khris in Crafter's Toolbox, DIY Projects & Tutorials, Invitations, Programs, + Stationery

Have you ever wanted to make your handwriting into a font? There are a number of sites online that allow you to upload samples of your handwriting and they’ll turn into a TrueType font for a fee. The cool thing is that you can create your own dingbats, too.

Check out:

Fontifier $9.00

HandFont $249.00

YourFonts $9.95

FontCapture {FREE}

FontsForPeas {FREE}

Crazy About Chandeliers

Posted by Khris in Crafter's Toolbox, DIY Projects & Tutorials, Invitations, Programs, + Stationery

2008 was definitely the Year of the Chandelier as the hot design motif. I’m happy to say that it’s still going strong in these early days of 2009 and am pretty confident we’ll be seeing the chandelier love in weddings for some time to come.

scrapNfonts just released this set of chandelier brushes (.abr) that comes along with .png image files for those of you who aren’t Photoshop users. You can use .png in other programs like MS Word. Pretty cute, eh? For just $6.00, it’s a steal.

scrapNfonts is a great resource for – you guessed it – fonts. Though geared towards scrapbookers, they have a wide selection of fonts, dingbats, and Photoshop brushes that’d be perfect for your printed wedding projects.

Ten Free Fonts That’ll Rock Your Invites

Posted by Khris in Crafter's Toolbox, DIY Projects & Tutorials

The hardest part about creating invitations (for me, at least) is selecting the fonts. Finding the perfect font to convey the unique style of the invite drives me batty sometimes. With something like 2 or 3 kajillion free fonts available on the internets (I have about half a kajillion of them myself) narrowing down what’s right can be downright daunting.

Here are 10 free fonts that are perfect for invitations and other wedding stationery. They were chosen based on (a) readability, (b) scalability (they look good in small & large fonts), (c) not overused in the industry, and (d) overall style.

1 . Wedding Script Bail

2. Day Roman

3. Cursif Font

4. ParmaPetit

5. Same-Sex Marriage Script

6. Optimus Princeps

7. Regency Script FLF

8. Geo Sans Light

9. Francisco Lucas Briosa

10. Henry Morgan Hand

For some great information on choosing and using fonts, I recommend these two articles:

Good Text Face Pts 1 & 2 from Font.Com

10 Rules For Type In Invites from Dynamic Graphics