Thread: Font Nerds, to the Font Cave!
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Old 05-21-2019, 09:19 AM   #7
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I already follow Matt Lyon's blog so of course I'm prejudiced in favor of his PlayBox.

Have you tried Affinity Designer?
No, but, see next...

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Nah, no cigar. It's just black, or whatever color you choose to fill it with.
Yeah. Ditto everything else I've tried. (sigh)

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Are you using the pre-subscription versions of the Adobe apps? I thought that with the subscription version it's always updated. Or are they offering non-subscription versions again.
Yup. I'm one of the last of the idiots that paid full boat for the apps, pre-subscription and it torques me no end that now any idiot can afford it AND they want me to subscribe, too. It's insult to injury.

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Reminds me of a Duran Duran cd case. Rio, "Hungry like the wolf."
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Can't you use them in Word's WordArt? You may have to install the font into Word first, which I think uses installed computer fonts. However, I use Windows, so I'm not sure how a Mac would handle this.
Nuttin'. Just as black as it is if I use it as a regular font. I admit, if there's some additional step to install the font "into Word," I don't know what that is. I have Popsky, both single-color and color versions, installed as system fonts, but NOTHIN'. Man, I've tried almost everything, even apps I have that convert fonts that are not embedded into images. NOTHING.

I swear, I don't mind the fact that if you're pioneering, y'know, the whole arrows in the back thing, but to my view, NOBODY uses colored fonts. It's a FEW Adobe programs, a handful of Mac apps that honestly, nobody's ever heard of (if you have, great, but I'm grumbling here...) and that's it. I You can say the words "OpenType-SVG fonts" all you want, and click your heels, but right now, they're boat anchors...they don't bloody DO anything. IOW, you can't get there from here.

I wanted to use Popsky for something for my biz, but it's ridiculous that I can't use it. I mean, even if I said, Oh, scr3w it, I'll update my Photoshop, I don't WANT to only use it in images, either. I'd like to be able to just put it wherever I want and TYPE, dammit.

/grumble.

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