HELP
Use this help to learn more about the application
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HOW IT WORKS
ChooseDaFont has been designed so that you can use it on a daily basis in the process of designing a project's logo, to inspire you on which typography can be the most suitable for the production of your book or to see which font can stand out more on your ad, among many other uses. For designers, freelancers, agencies or printers this is the perfect tool when it comes to choosing their fonts.
In the main screen just fill in the input field with the text you want to try. This text can be one word, or a whole paragraph. ChooseDaFont has the ability to give you the typographic information you need both for simple words and for sets of words.
Once you have typed your text, press the enter key or click the arrow on the input field; the application will take you to the work screen.
Here you will see your text inside multiple boxes, each one representing a different typography applied to your text. If you scroll down you will be able to load an almost unlimited number of fonts, because the fonts ChooseDaFont handles are many!
In this screen you will be able to modify the global style of all your visualizations. By clicking on the top menu buttons you will be able to apply the following effects:
• TEXT: Text color
• BACKGROUND: Background color
• -T-: Letter spacing, widens the space between all letters
• T|: Font size, enlarges the size of the whole text
• B: Applies bold style throughout your text
• I: Applies italics throughout your text
• AA: Capitalizes your text, or just the first letter of each word, or returns to the initial lowercase state.
In this screen you can also modify the style ONLY of a specific font. To do this, place your mouse over the font you want to modify and click on your word, a menu will appear similar to the top menu's; anything you click here will ONLY be applied to the chosen font.
USING FAVORITES
At any time you can select a font and its settings as a Favorite, it's as simple as clicking on the heart symbol next to each font.
Whenever you click on a font's heart icon, the font is highlighted, and anytime you want you can view all of your favorite fonts and settings by going to the button at the top right where the heart icon also appears. This icon is next to another button named "ALL". When you are in the general screen what you are visualizing is ALL the fonts, when you click on the heart you ONLY visualize the fonts that you have marked as Favorites.
In both displays, whether you are in ALL or the Heart Icon, you can change the general style or the specific style of a font by using the style buttons available. What you do on one screen will also be shown on the other, so you don't lose anything.
But..., remember that if at any time you refresh the browser screen, you may lose all the work you have done so far, because the application will return you to the initial state and there is no way to recover what you had done, you will have to repeat it.
This application has 2 working versions:
• FREE version: this is the basic version, it is the one that any user can access without having to subscribe or give any data, therefore it is of free use. In this version the only options available are working with a text, fonts and modify styles, and as a result you can download either the font to use it on your computer or the color settings and styles as html code to use them on your website.
• PREMIUM version: this is the paid version, it is a subscription that allows you to create your account and access more professional features, such as:
- Ads-free browsing on the fonts screen
- Save Favorites into your account
- Save style settings in different folders, which you can retrieve and continue working on from My Account
- An online system to ask for your colleagues' opinions
- Download PNG, JPG and PDF images of your chosen fonts and styles
- Duplicate fonts and settings so you don't have to do the work again from the beginning
- Plus everything the FREE version offers
VIEW MY COMPUTER'S FONTS
When you are on the main screen, where you can view ALL possible fonts and settings, you can also filter those fonts using the MY COMPUTER'S FONTS button.
This button filters and shows all the fonts that you already have installed in your system, so you can speed up the creation process even more because you no longer have to download the font to use it, because you have it installed.
With this filter you can directly get to the point and use the typefaces that you already use in your creation process, therefore it is a feature that we think will be of interest to you.
At any time you can go back to view ALL the fonts by unclicking the MY COMPUTER'S FONTS button, once you do so you will see ALL the fonts again, including the ones you already have installed.
GOOGLE FONTS
ChooseDaFont uses GOOGLE FONTS to display all the typefaces that you visualize, that is, they are fonts you can download safely and use them for your creative process.
Google Fonts is an open library of more than 800 free fonts. We connect to Google's servers to show you all the fonts you see on the work screen.
Google Fonts are published under a license that allows you to use them in your personal or commercial projects. You can see the license by following this link:
https://fonts.google.com/attribution
DARK MODE
ChooseDaFont can be displayed with 2 different visual styles:
• LIGHT MODE: this display uses a white background, a luminous style that allows you to view all your settings in a positive way.
• DARK MODE: when you click on the moon button at the top right you turn the whole web into a high-contrast, night style that allows you to browse and visualize everything in a darker display.
The Dark Mode is useful for not getting your eyes tired so much, because by not having to process all the light a white screen emits, the eye gets less fatigued allowing you to work longer.
This type of display is enabled in the Free Version, i.e. it is free and can be used for free.
SAVE FONT SETTINGS
This option is available only in the PREMIUM Version, so it only works if you are subscribed to the application and have your own account.
This feature allows you to save at any time all text, style and font settings in your account and in different folders. In other words, use this feature so that you can always keep what you are working on, so you never lose any changes or corrections you make.
You can save settings in folders, that is, in your account area there is an option that allows you to create folders so you can identify your projects, or your customers, or your work niches, and therefore you can have different font settings for each folder.
It is editable, that is to say, after saving a setting you can keep modifying its style and text and save it again, so you always have your creation updated and you can retrieve it at any other time you need, because everything is stored in your account.
And that's not all, in addition, in each folder you can REQUEST THE OPINION of whoever you need by sending your fonts to your colleagues via e-mail. Inside each folder you will find the buttons that allow you to REQUEST THE OPINION, and once your colleagues give it to you through the email they have received, if you go back to your account on that folder you will be able to see the votes given to your different options and you will know which one is the most upvoted
Finally, if after voting you want to ask for the opinion again because you have made changes... Don't worry! In the folder you will find a button to reset the voting, click it and follow the same process as before: you will receive the opinion of each of your colleagues about the new changes.
SAVING IMAGES
This option is only for the PREMIUM Version, so it only works if you are subscribed to the application and have your own account.
On each font you can click the arrow button to choose a number of options. Among these options is the possibility to DOWNLOAD ONE PNG, ONE JPG or ONE PDF. These options allow you to download as an image the specific font you are working on, and to send the image by e-mail to your colleagues or clients so that they can take a look at it and give you their opinion about what you are developing.
It is used in a very simple way, click on the arrow and choose the format that suits you best for the image, then you'll see a new tab open in your browser and from there you can download the image using the right mouse button.
This feature is very useful when you want to show someone the possibilities of a font.
DOWNLOADING FONTS
Regardless of the version you are subscribed to you will be able to download the font you choose for your ad, promotion or project.
Once the font is chosen, it is as simple as displaying the options menu of that font and clicking on the DOWNLOAD link, this will open a new browser window and will show a menu asking you where on your computer you want to download it.
REMEMBER: ChooseDaFont uses GOOGLE FONTS to display all the typefaces that you visualize, that is, they are fonts you can download safely and use them for your creative process.
Google Fonts is an open library of more than 800 free fonts. We connect to Google's servers to show you all the fonts you see on the work screen.
Google Fonts are published under a license that allows you to use them in your personal or commercial projects. You can see the license by following this link:
https://fonts.google.com/attribution
CEVAGRAF, SCCL's team
April 2019