Hi, this is Anne with Graphic Design How To, and today I'm going to show you how to use Fontcloud,
which is a Creative Fabrica website to preview and store fonts on your computer. And it's all for
free. All right, let's get started. Ok, so I want to show you how this works. I'm here on fontcloud,
and there's a link in my description for this. And if you use my referral link, I get a little bit of
storage or something like that on fontcloud. You can also just go to fontcloud.creativefabrica.com,
if you want to do it that way, if you don't like referral links. I totally get that.
So just check in my description. I'll have both those links down there. Now fontcloud is free, and
when you sign up for an account, you get a free font that automatically comes preloaded in here.
And we can drop any fonts that end in TTF or OTF, from our computer here,
so I'm going to go ahead and drop some fonts on here.
And it just automatically loads them. And the nice thing about this is, you can be selective about
which fonts you want to put on here. And you can also delete them, so you don't have to see
specific ones. Now this is also storing all your fonts. So if something happens to your computer,
they'll always be out here in fontcloud. And if you want to download these, you can just right
click and choose Download here. Now the thing I like most about this is you can preview the fonts
with your own text. So let's say you wanted to see what each one looked like with the text Hello.
So you can see how the characters are for that text specifically. We can also click a font, and
we get a few options here. So we can increase the font size, if we want. We can see all the glyphs
it contains, so there's two different versions of D here, for example, and I can just click on this
one to copy it to my clipboard, and I get a little message up here at the top, that says it did it.
Then you can go to another program and just paste it in. Ok, I'm going to go ahead and get back out
of that. So the way I use this most of the time is to help me pick a font to go with a different
font. So I'll show you what I mean. I'm going go out to Illustrator here. So what I want to
do is find one that looks good with this other font. So I'll just pull this up over here. First,
I'm going to try this Ambrossius Script. So I'll highlight the word mom, and then I'm going to just
change my character to Ambrossius Script... see how that looks. We'll make it a little bit bigger.
And I think this might work, okay,
but maybe like that. Let's see if we can find a different one. I'm going to try AnneScript next.
I'm going to make this quite a bit smaller. And I think this one might be the one. I'm liking how
thick it is and everything. So now that I have my font, I can go ahead and outline it and then just
connect these pieces so that it looks more natural.
All right, that's working. So basically it just made it really easy to find a good one that
would work really quickly. I'm going to go back out here to fontcloud. And now with fontcloud,
they give you a certain amount of storage...looks like two gigabytes. I have all of my fonts
loaded in my real account. This one is just kind of a fake account for this tutorial,
and it didn't even come close to filling up two gigabytes. So that is a pretty nice thing.
It will hold a lot of fonts. And while I really like fontcloud, I do think it could be improved
a little bit. One thing it can't do that would be really helpful is to be able to have folders over
here that had like sans serif, and then we could just, you know, drag and drop different fonts into
those folders. But as it is now there is no way to kind of categorize them or anything like that.
Hopefully they'll get something like that in the future. But overall, I do think it works really
well. I use it all the time. All right, if you like this video and you want to see more videos
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