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Making the most of Dafont.com

July 23, 2014 by Kay

Making the most of Dafont.com video and written tutorial. Tips and tricks for using everyone's favorite font download site.

Most everyone knows you can download awesome free fonts at Dafont.com, but it’s got some other features you may be missing out on. Here’s a list of some cool things you can do at Dafont besides downloading:

1. Preview fonts with your own text

2. Customize the size of the text and number of fonts per page

3. View different cases of your preview text

4. View/download a character key

5. View all the variants of a font

6. Filter for commercial use OK fonts

7. Find fonts by the same designer

8. Find fonts in the same category

9. Browse fonts by category

10. Browse fonts by designer

11. Filter for foreign features

12. Create your own categories

13. Learn how to install fonts

14. Get help identifying a font

15. See the newest uploads

16. Sort by popularity, name or date

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Take a look at my Robots category for an example.

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Comments

  1. Patti Painter says

    July 23, 2014 at 6:46 pm

    Thanks so much for all your hard work. Your videos are always helpful.

  2. Melissa @ Silhouette School says

    July 23, 2014 at 6:59 pm

    Soooo love you for this!

  3. Helen G. says

    July 23, 2014 at 11:19 pm

    Thanks for the information! Very helpful!

  4. Denyse says

    July 24, 2014 at 3:29 am

    Thank you very much, have shared a link to this with my Cameo FB group!

  5. Karla Capo says

    July 24, 2014 at 7:19 am

    Thank you so much, Kay! I never knew you could do all that. The things you have taught me.

  6. trishreddick says

    July 24, 2014 at 8:02 am

    Thanks Kay for this informative video! I use your character map in Studio to create my paper font book. I find it so much easier to sort through my fonts in this format, but now I am going to fully explore Dafont’s tools. Thanks again!

  7. Candie Schaal says

    July 25, 2014 at 8:04 am

    I watched the video and it was great. Thanks so much. I was just wondering how to filter for commercial QK fonts. Thanks for the help.

  8. Peggy T says

    July 26, 2014 at 9:23 am

    Kay, I love your videos and blog. This video was so informative. I watched your video “Quick Stamp Mats In Silhouette Studio”. Did you ever make another video with audio or a tutorial? I would like to do this with my stamps. What did you cut the mats out of?

    • Kay says

      July 26, 2014 at 12:00 pm

      Peggy,
      Yes I did make another video here. http://cleversomeday.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/stampmatsss/ I just cut the mats from card stock to stamp on.

      • Peggy T says

        July 26, 2014 at 12:18 pm

        Thank you,Kay. Very informative.

  9. kathleen schriber says

    July 28, 2014 at 7:47 am

    who knew! great tips and thank you! i’ll get more use out of dafont now!

  10. scrapnana22 says

    December 27, 2015 at 8:54 pm

    Kay….in my book you are the font expert!!! What do you think about the La Veronique Script??? I found a price of $20 for it…is that good?

    TIA, Pam Conner

    • Kay says

      December 28, 2015 at 8:19 am

      Hi Pam, No question that La Veronique is beautiful, on trend and well made. I am in favor of compensating type designers for their beautiful works, but a couple of things to consider with respect to its value to you. Do you have Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop in order to access all of the glyphs, because it is not coded to work with Character Map, etc. and what rights will you get for that $20 price? I purchased the font as part of a bundle with extended rights, but most of the single font purchases carry more restrictive rights, so something to consider.

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