Help
Can I modify your fonts?
You can modify the letters in the fonts for your artwork, but you are not allowed to create new font files and distribute them. We maintain source files and often publish new versions of fonts, and we would not be able to support unauthorised fonts.
Can I use the font in a logo?
Yes, it is fine to use Typotheque fonts in a logo. A simple Desktop licence is all you need.
Can you create a custom version of the font?
Yes, we often create custom fonts for clients. Sometimes a small adjustment can make the font better suited to a particular purpose; this could be changing a single letter, or modifying proportions. Sometimes, we create new fonts from scratch. Whatever your requirement is, feel free to send us an email.
How can I access special characters and symbols inside your fonts?
Design applications such as Adobe InDesign and Illustrator offer an option to view the glyphs pallet, and manually select the symbols you need. Text editors, such as Apple Pages, don’t come with such options, and in this case you would need to type the character you need directly. Go to a specific font presentation page to view the glyphs the fonts contain, and when you find the character you need, you can copy and paste it, if it has a Unicode code point.
I need the fonts in a different format.
Typotheque delivers its fonts in OTF format for desktop fonts, and WOFF2 for the webfonts. If you need a specific format that is not offered, please drop up a message, and we’ll try to help.
Incorrectly shaped text
Typotheque fonts support most of the world languages. However, some non-alphabetic writing scripts can appear incorrectly shaped. For example, Arabic or Devanagari text can be disconnected or marks wrongly positioned, when using standard text composer. To fix it in Adobe InDesign, go to the Paragraph panel and selecting one of the two World-Ready options (Single-line or Paragraph).
Misaligned baseline in InDesign
In Adobe InDesign, the distance between a text frame’s top and its first baseline is by default decided by the “ascent” value, which is font-dependent. Therefore, different fonts will likely be positioned on different heights.
You can change this setting by right clicking a text frame and go to “Text Frame Options…” in the menu > “Baseline Options” tab. See Adobe’s official help documentation about this setting (but note its explanation about the “Ascent” option is incorrect):
Among the options, “Ascent”, “Cap Height”, and “x Height” are font-dependent, while “Leading” and “Fixed” are font-independent and helpful to your case.
Alternatively, you may want to set a baseline grid for the text frame, which is explained also in the link above, right after the “First baseline offset options” section.
Using fonts in Canva
If you have a Typotheque Desktop license, and you also use a paid version of Canva, you should be able to upload the fonts to Canva and use them. Just make sure that the number of Canva users corresponds to the number of users that you have licensed the fonts for. For example, if your Canva for Teams is for five people, your Typotheque font licence should also cover five people.