Posts tagged font update

I made some changes to my most popular font! I'm not as fastidious when it comes to versioning fonts but 3.0 seems about right since this is the third major change to the family.

This update includes:

• Adding a new Horseshoes Outline variation
• Improving kerning on Horseshoes
• Making minor tweaks to characters that felt a little awkward in Horseshoes and Horseshoes & Lemonade
• Bundling up some bonus assets (retro seamless backgrounds and illustrations) in PSD, PNG, and SVG formats

Give it a try here and if you run into any issues, please let me know! And if you previously purchased a commercial license and would like a copy of the new commercial files, send me an email at lauren@laurenashpole.com.

Ugh, I’d hoped to get this out way back in February and really lost my motivation after missing Valentine’s Day. I guess the day before the 4th of July will have to do.

The Paper Hearts font now has improved kerning and three new variations: outlined, color, and color outline. The color files are OpenType SVG and work in all browsers and programs that support that format. Get it here.

It also seems worth mentioning why these updates were taking so long and the lessons I learned. A while back, I switched to the Glyphs App but, after years of using much older software, I hadn’t explored a lot of its features. So I was trying to outline each heart shape manually and taking ages on every character while also not getting the consistent look I wanted. But it turns out there are easier ways! The tutorial How to make a monoline font goes over using the Offset Curve filter to apply an outline to an entire instance and the forum post Apply strokes to all glyphs explains how to use mekkablue scripts to add the same stroke settings across the board. I used the latter for this font and it saved so much time. 

Look out for even more outline options! Maybe I’ll do Horseshoes next.

If you find yourself needing a slightly different version of a font, don’t hesitate to ask! A user email years ago is how Horseshoes entered the Horseshoes & Lemonade family and a recent request lead to Roundabout Fill Full (the name is a little clunky but Fill was already taken).

While I was creating the new option, I also made some kerning improvements across the family so download (or re-download) the whole package here.

I just updated the full/commercial version of Starry Night to fix a problem some folks were having in Microsoft programs.

If you’ve previously purchased it and need the new one, just let me know.

I gave myself until Valentine’s Day to finish updating this font (because if you’re going to set arbitrary deadlines, they may as well be seasonal). Obviously, I missed my goal but it’s ready now.

The new version includes upper and lowercase letters, loads of extra symbols if you purchase commercial licensing, and should validate better than before. You can download it here.