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Six hand-painted watercolor backgrounds.

A layered Photoshop file containing all the transparent letters, so you can just grab the characters you need and drag them to your canvas.

Portabella SVG – A bonus transparent SVG style with built-in texture.Portabella Serif – A hand-drawn serif with subtly textured edges.Portabella Solid – A traditional hand-painted and vector-based font with an elegant, brushed texture.

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Here’s what you get when you download Portabella – Use all the bonus elements – delicate florals, watercolor backgrounds, and more – to create lovely wedding invites, romantic branding, and home décor, just for starters. Portabella Serif is a beautifully spaced all-caps font with organic edges that complements the painterly feel of the textured Portabella SVG script perfectly. The Portabella collection gives you a fabulous font duo of hand-brushed letters, elegant and contemporary. Let Amelia, with its beautiful flourishes, introduce you to the world of decorative fonts. Bonus – Three PhotoShop files with editable swash examples.Compatible with Cricut and Silhouette machines.Hundreds of ligatures, contextual and stylistic alternates.Two complete sets of capitals, with extra swash versions of selected caps.More than 150 top and end swashes that perfectly connect with every letter.Amelia Script – Draft version with a dry-brushed, textured feel.Amelia Script – Fine version with smooth, clean lines.You can access it in Photoshop without opening the glyphs panel, and it comes with an extensive help file to get you started! It’s also great for designers who are new to premium fonts.

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Open Font Book: Finder > Applications > Font Book or Cmd + Space to use Spotlight search.Amelia is a fun and funky, fully connected roundhand script that won’t sit still, giving it movement and character.Īmelia is stand-alone beautiful, but it also has a full selection of alternate styles and swashes for every letter, giving you endless design options.

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Download and install the OTF font on your computer.

For your design, you can use any OpenType font to explore its glyphs’ options. It happened to have a good glyphs collection that perfectly serves the purpose of diving into a glyphs subject. In my mockup examples, I am going to use The Sky font from Myfonts.

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Since all my graphic design work is done on a Mac, here are a few ways how to easily access glyphs using built-in macOS applications and Adobe creative programs.

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So whenever you are deciding what font format to install on your computer (sometimes you can find TTF and OTF formats of the same font inside the zip font folder), go with OTF as it potentially can give you access to hundreds of glyphs, different characters, and other ornaments.

If earlier, all design enthusiasts could only dream of channeling their inner Herb Lubalin when adding all those swashes and extras to the text, with the OTF format thousands of extras for letters and characters became easily accessible to all. Things have greatly improved since the early 2000s when the OpenType font format was released, allowing extra space storage for characters and alternates that you don’t see on a keyboard. OpenType Fonts (OTF)Not all fonts have glyph sets but many that come as OpenType versions do. A standard character, such as a lowercase a or &, can be expressed by multiple different glyphs. GLYPHSEach glyph is an alternate graphic expression of a character. What's really awesome is that many free fonts nowadays include a glyphs' set with numerous alternate expressions of standard characters that you can easily access and use with basic apps on your computer. Especially, when there are so many free fonts available on the web, talk about the ever updated font collections on Dafont and Font Squirrel. Chances are many custom fonts, especially calligraphy and scripts, that you downloaded from font sites for your DIY projects are due to those fancy embellishments that extend off or customize some standard letters and characters while as a graphic designer I worship all the classic typefaces, such as Helvetica, Gill Sans, and Frutiger, as a creative soul I also tend to fall for beautiful swashes and extras in the font every now and then.

They are mainly used for their aesthetic appeal to make a bare-bones text more attractive. Glyphs are often referred to as special characters, swashes, alternates, letters with tails, and hidden elements.