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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.

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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.

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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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