{"id":2693,"date":"2013-01-05T19:16:11","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T03:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaeldoret.com\/blog\/?p=2693"},"modified":"2016-03-06T16:44:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T00:44:31","slug":"alphabet-soup-font-guides-and-manuals-free-downloads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/?p=2693","title":{"rendered":"Alphabet Soup Font Guides and Manuals \u2013 Free Downloads"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many people have asked why I have only 10 fonts available for purchase. Part of the answer is that I\u2019m sort of a perfectionist, and it takes me quite a long time to design, execute, and test a font to make sure it\u2019s working properly. Also, all that work must be sandwiched in between design and lettering assignments\u2014which must always take precedence. But there\u2019s another reason why, at best, I can only turn out maybe one font design a year\u2014and that is for me there\u2019s a bit more to releasing a font than just having the font itself ready to go. There are a ton of supporting graphics that need to be created, and each font reseller has different requirements.<\/p>\n

But more importantly, I decided early on that included with each font I would supply a full color PDF Guide or Manual (all 10 represented above). From these multi-page PDFs one can get a very good idea of what these fonts look like in use, and gain an understanding their special features and how to access them. For example, the PowerStation Manual explains how to set layered copy in 2 or three colors, and in the Deliscript Manual you\u2019ll find out how to access the special \u201ct-crossbar\u201d feature (among others). You\u2019ll also learn some important \u201cDo\u2019s\u201d and \u201cDon\u2019ts\u201d for each font and (if you\u2019re interested) read about how these fonts came to be.<\/p>\n

Originally these manuals were only intended to be included with the font download at purchase, but I realized that they should also be available for prospective buyers as well as others\u2014they might help with a decision, or just serve as inspiration. I\u2019ve put links for all 9 PDF downloads together on one page, together with several case studies of some of my design work. So feel free to go the DOWNLOAD<\/a> page and click on 1, 2 or all 10 of them.<\/p>\n

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Many people have asked why I have only 10 fonts available for purchase. Part of the answer is that I\u2019m sort of a perfectionist, and it takes me quite a long time to design, execute, and test a font to make sure it\u2019s working properly. Also, all that work must be sandwiched in between design and lettering assignments\u2014which must always take precedence. But there\u2019s another reason why, at best, I can only turn out maybe one font design a year\u2014and that is for me there\u2019s a bit more to releasing a font than just having the font itself ready to go. There are a ton of supporting graphics that need […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[29,94,96,110,404,128,526,525,146,216,528,527,258,310],"class_list":["post-2693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-notes","tag-alphabet-soup-type-founders","tag-deliscript","tag-deluxe-gothic","tag-dynascript","tag-dynatype","tag-font-design","tag-font-manual","tag-font-reseller","tag-grafika","tag-metroscript","tag-orion","tag-pdf","tag-powerstation","tag-steinweiss-script"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2693"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3533,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693\/revisions\/3533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}