r/fonts

Hello everyone! I always had a problem when making a new project of finding what font to use. Whilst I’d know approximately what I liked, I found scrolling through a long list quite unproductive, so I made a tool where you can visually explore fonts from google fonts to find the right one.

You can check it out at www.jellyfont.xyz. I’m excited to know what everyone thinks, please let me know any feedback!

Please find this font i want it so bad

About 1,5 year ago I posted here asking if I should upgrade my old font that I made 20 years ago as a hobby project.

Many people encouraged me to do it, so I started fixing a few things. Then a few fixes became a much bigger project.

I spent many evenings in the second half of 2025 redrawing glyphs, improving kerning and metrics, adding more characters and generally trying to make the font the way I always wanted it to be.

Finally I released a Pro version. I submitted it to several marketplaces and only one accepted it.

A few months have passed and there were no sales. To be fair, I did absolutely no advertising or promotion. I'm much better at making fonts than selling them.

Today I received a small PayPal donation for the old free version, and it reminded me of this whole journey. So I thought I would share the result here.

There is still a long list of things I'd like to add. But I also learned that making a font family takes a lot of time, so I'd rather know that someone actually wants it before spending another half year on it.

For those of you who sell fonts: how do you promote them? Do you use social media, marketplaces, newsletters... or do you just release them and hope people find them?

And of course, any feedback on the upgrade is very welcome.

Original post from last year: https://www.reddit.com/r/fonts/comments/1i4edic/should_i_upgrade_my_old_font/

I have a website client who is a school. They have always used Calibri for everything as of course it's their throughout their IT system, and it was also used on their website. Now font radar are hounding them for their license. They obviously do not have a specific Calibri font license, it comes inbuilt with Windows (it's a Microsoft font).

I've been searching Microsoft and it appears we can use their fonts on the website but the legal speak is indecipherable so I am not 100% sure, does anyone know?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/fonts/font-faq

This seems like a total scam, but they keep emailing and threatening.

Can we tell them to f*** off??!

Edit: Thanks all, this has been educational, I appreciate all the responses. It turns out it's licensed through adobe thankfully. What a dreadful company Font Radar is going around threatening organisations.

Ok I’m not very techy but I’m trying to make a relative’s handwriting a font. They lost some handwriting capabilities so I thought this would help them practice.

I took pics of their notes and traced all of the characters on PowerPoint with my iPad and Apple Pencil. I downloaded the calligraphr template and just put it in a word doc so I could copy/paste the letters but I’m having trouble resizing the letters into the template.

The thinner A on the right is what I want but when I size it down it looks like the image on the left. I grouped all the individual lines and “locked aspect ratio” but it didn’t help.

ANY advice is appreciated. I really want to help them and would like to finish this asap.

I scanned a page of my own handwriting and spent a while turning it into a proper typeface: Regular, Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic, with an extended Latin set (~330 glyphs) that covers most Western/Central/Northern European languages/accents, ¿¡, ß, æ/œ, ð/þ, the Romanian comma-below letters, smart quotes, €/£, etc. I added 3 alternates for each letter and number so it looks more natural.

The goal was to keep the natural irregularity of real handwriting while normalizing the baseline and spacing so it still sets cleanly as text. Specimen + a few language samples are on the page.

I'd appreciate all kind of feedback, and if you happen to like it enough to use it, it's up on my Gumroad (link in comments / below).

Unlike all the posts on reddit and Imgur that I found wrong and are just similar fonts, I finally found the actual font that is used on Gamecube era Resident Evil games (1 Remake, Zero and 4) mostly for subtitles and item descriptions. It's called “ITC Bookman Std” but it is modified a bit, since I found only the letter “Q” in RE1R's pause menu for the word “Quit” is different (it's more like “Century Old Style Std” cause this one was a famous font back then and a I still see it in a lot of japanese games but I'm not sure if it's exactly that font) and the letters are condensed and are not as wide as the actual font. I hope some modder find this useful and actually mod this OG font for the HD editions of RE1 and RE4 on PC. The new font they used in RE1 HD Remaster “Tsuku Gothic” is a good font but I prefer the old and typewriter looking letters of the Gamecube era font.

Built a small open-source font generator because I wanted to see if a prompt-
based font tool could work. This one uses real open-licensed variable fonts, lets you tweak the axes, edit glyph curves directly, and export an ttf.

Still experimental, but it’s been fun to build and I’d love feedback/contribution from
people who like typography, design tools, or weird browser-based editors.

I've seen videos with this font blowing up and they all use capcut templates so it must be in capcut but I can't find it! help please

Example: https://www.tiktok.com/@livinlikedis/video/7657088304982052127

This question came to me the other day when someone asked me how to spell “saliva” (I used to be a graphic designer, but now I’m a veterinary assistant so that’s not the weirdest word ever)

I spelled it out for them and realized my brain visualized it in a font. Closest common one I could think of is Bradley Hand. I’d never design anything with this font, but apparently it’s in my brain to think and spell words.

So now I’m super curious, what fonts do other people’s brains use?

“roughened” up the typography whoa what do y’all think!? Personally I like the last one but are those scalable or not??? I’m personally going for graffiti street type of vibe! Punk! Rebel hehehe. This is my first project so please don’t burn me 😢😢😢 also thank you so much for the wonderful advices and tips in the last post 😭😭👌💕😔