Let's work with some new fonts.
We are going to go down to page 3,
we're going to get my type tool,
draw a nice big box in the center here and we're going to call
this one Healing Herbs, okay.
We're going to select it and at the top who are going to go to Character
and you'll drop this down and you'll see there's a bunch of fonts on your system.
These are the ones that come at by default when you machine.
We're going to look at adding fonts from Typekit and some other free stuff.
Let's quickly look at free fonts and then jump into Typekit.
there are lots of places to get free fonts,
1001 free fonts, deaf font, I find.
There is a lot of techie fonts and crapy fonts in there.
So I just jumped to Font Squirrel.
It's a great place for commercial use fonts that
are free and you can go through here and download them.
See there's Alex Brush here,
I'm going to click "Download".
I'm going to stick it on my desktop in my class files click "Save".
I'm going to open up that little zip file that it came with,
double-click it and it's given me this,
the ttf file, that should hold the fonts that you want.
It might be an otf file.
I can't remember what the other ones are,
but double-click it and depending on your system,
it'll come out with install font super easy,
both Mac and PC.
Now if we jump into InDesign,
no need to restart.
I can go up here and say, "Alex".
There it is, Alex Brush and I can start using that font.
I'm going to make it a lot bigger, maybe up to 40.
There's that font, commercial use ready to go.
Now, Font Squirrel and Free Fonts site's like it,
often have really good heading fonts,
but very poor body copy fonts because,
body copy fonts just take a lot longer to
make because there's so many more nuances than say,
just these big headings here.
So in an earlier video, we looked at my fonts.
We can buy commercial fonts,
but we're going to look at Typekit,
because Typekit is an actual paid for commercial font library, okay, from Adobe.
But because you've got a Creative Cloud license,
or potentially you have,
you get access to it for free or at least as part of your subscriptions.
Let's go and check that out.
So up the top here,
the easiest way is to click this one,
this is "Add fonts from Typekit" and it's going to actually open up a web browser.
You can't do it from within InDesign.
Let's go, so it's opening up here in my browser and if you're not logged in,
you might have to login with your Adobe username and password,
mine's already logged in and I love this site.
You can do some cool things.
I'm going to omit this one that says My Library.
Actually go to All Families and the Sample Text thing is quite useful.
So I can say I want to do healing herbs.
You can see what's it's going to look like before you download it,
which is really handy, play around with the size. Because it's going to be a heading.
Something like that and you can start working through the fonts.
A nice thing about Typekit as well as over here, this Classification.
Now all the fonts are on my machine,
I've got hundreds of them,
but they're all not groups.
So it's a bit of a pain to go through and say,
I want to find like a hand-drawn font.
So it's easy to come to Typekit,
click on "Hand" and you can find hand-drawn fonts.
You can download them from here.
You can see this one here a Slab Serif,
nice,, big thick chunky one.
You can also add extra little filters as well.
You can say I want it for Headings only,
so it's going to cut out the ones that it thinks are mainly for paragraph text.
Down here is quite useful as well.
Say you have a really long headings,
you can pick this width to be quite skinny,
so you can fit quite a lot of letters and
a title or if you want a nice big thick wide one.
I'm going to click on it again and it just deselects all of them.
If you want heavyweights or a nice thin weight,
contrast, x-height, there is all sorts of things.
Like this one's quite useful if you're picking a body copy font forever for a company.
I hate it when you get stuck where you pick a font,
but the numbers do this weird thing where they,
can you see down here, they all sit on the baseline,
which means this 4 dangles below and the 6 is above.
[inaudible] I found that also has all the numbers lining up,
to not give me any issues later on.
I'm going to deselect that. Actually, I've got some fonts we want to use.
I'm going to go in here and I'm going to up here and says search Typekit,
and it'll download a couple of fonts for me.
The first one I want is called Lust.
You can choose Lust or Lust Script.
With a bit more clearly really,
we are just going to use the plain old Lust.
Click on it and there's an option here that says,
Sync All, click on that. Click "Back".
Relax. The nice thing about this is that actually
Adobe's Creative Cloud App is actually
installing this for you. I'm going to click "Close".
Now if we jump into InDesign and highlight the text,
super-simple, Lust and here it is.
I'm going to use Lust italic.
I'm going to give it the mid green color.
That's how you install fonts.
Now we're going to go through now and install a couple more.
Let's turn back. We're going to use Roboto, I like Roboto.
When you are picking fonts,
often you'll use a header font,
something a little bit more exciting like Lust and then a body copy font,
obviously Lust as a body copy font would be a terrible idea.
So Roboto, great.
I'm going to sync Roboto.
I like Roboto because it is like Ariel.
Nice, simple, easy to read form,
but it's little more sophisticated, I feel.
Let's look at Roboto Slab.
It's very similar. It's got these what's called Slab Serifs.
See this bottom with this "q" here,
Serifs are the little feet.
So this is a Serif fonts,
it's got the little feet down the bottom.
San Serif, if you've ever heard of that word means without the little feet.
So San is without Serifs and a Slab Serifs just means a big chunky slabby one,
like old school university fonts.
Now I already had this one synced,
so I don't have to click "Sync All" again, and it's all ready to go.
As a little side note,
Roboto is what Google uses for YouTube or YouTube uses for YouTube.
It's their font that they use on everything.
It's quite a nice font. They use it well.
Go and check out them, on how they use it.
If you want to find combinations of Roboto being used nicely.
Now one thing when it comes to using fonts,
if you are really new,
often some basic rules can help you and the basic rules are you pick two fonts.
You pick a font that has a Serif font and a Sans Serif,
these little things hanging off the edges here,
these like little feet are called Serif.
So you have a Serif font,
that have these and a Sans Serif font is without them.
Sans is Latin for without.
Often that's a great way to get started.
So just pick two fonts.
I know we've picked three in this case.
I've got some special use cases for it,
but pick two fonts,
one Serif, one Sans Serif.
If you pick two Serif fonts, often,
if you pick that something like Times or Garamond together,
they're not different enough to look different,
it does look a bit messy or broken.
So you pick one with the feet and without the feet,
and often it doesn't really matter which one you use for the title or the body copy,
but the combination can look quite good and from within those fonts,
you can pick two weights.
So you've got four uses.
You've got your Serif font,
your San serif font and within those you can pick a light version and a bold version,
let's say, or maybe just a regular version and a bold version.
So you've got four choices and that'll give you enough options
to keep consistency through the document without using too many fonts,
but also be able to break up content.
Things like headings versus subheadings versus body copy
versus paragraphs versus captions,
those types of things.
If you're still unsure how to put things together which two to pick,
you can just go into Google and search for
Typekit and something like font combinations or font pairings is another good word,
and go to images.
What it'll do is it'll show you Typekit fonts that can be used together.
Are all of them great?
No. But you go through and you say actually,
I wish this was actually bigger so I can see it a bit better.
But let's say this one here.
This seems like a really good example of a Serif font for
the title and a San Serif for the body copy.
So follow this link, figure out what they are,
and you can download those ones.
You can also see down here,
this is the same font,
but with different weights.
So it's a good example to show you we're not switching our fonts,
we're just playing with two different weights.
So that's using Adobe Typekit in InDesign.