Year: 2022

Featured Designer Emily Spadoni

Featured Designer | Emily Spadoni

Who is Emily Spadoni Emily is an artist, designer, and maker who works in both physical and digital mediums and excels at both!!! You may recognize her work used on brands like Adobe, Random House Publishing, American Greetings cards, Glamour Magazine, and Twinkies! Top Fonts By 2018, Emily felt like she was able to execute… Continue Reading ›

Font Spotting And User Submitted Work

Font Spotting and User Submitted Work

Font Spotting As designers, it’s always a pleasure to see our work “In The Wild”–on billboards, menus, t-shirts, and all kinds of other media. Fans “font spotting” on their own and sharing pictures by tagging us on Twitter, or just sending an email to show us what they found is always something fun and uplifting.… Continue Reading ›

Chequered Ink Team

Please Welcome Dan and Allison | Chequered Ink

We are excited to announce Chequered Ink has joined MakersType! Dan and Allison are experienced designers with over 1000 fonts in their catalog, they cover a wide variety of uses including bold and strong industrial to imaginative fantasy inspired fonts. Currently, we only have about ten percent of their work up, but you will see… Continue Reading ›

Darcy Baldwin Fonts

Featured Designer | Darcy Baldwin

How Darcy Baldwin Fonts Began Starting out with scrapbooking, Darcy Baldwin developed an interest in fonts, and, after being encouraged by Kimberly Geswein, started making some of her own. She developed her own style with fonts that are so playful and fun. They’re great for projects where you’d like to add something unique with a… Continue Reading ›

Find Fonts Fast

Find Fonts Fast

Best Way | Homepage | Search | Dashboard | How do I find fonts? | How do I find a Specific Font? | Is there an app? What is the best way to find fonts? If designing your own custom text isn’t an option due to time or other factors, the ability to find fonts… Continue Reading ›

New Features for MakersType

New Features May 2022

Introducing New Features for MakersType We are proud to announce several new features that are all designed to streamline your workflow and help you find the highest quality fonts available. User Accounts Up until now, there was no way to track your fonts and leave comments for designers and the community as a whole. Your… Continue Reading ›

Makerstype Designer Communities

MakersType Facebook and Discord Communities

MakersType Designer Communities As designers, we often are by ourselves without many people to ask questions and get opinions from, especially if you are a new designer. We wanted to create some spaces where all types of designers and users can come together to learn, improve, and have as much fun as possible. We also… Continue Reading ›

Allowed Uses For Fonts

Allowed Uses For Fonts MakersType

Allowed Uses for Fonts on MakersType We are working to help content creators and graphic designers alike have an easier time understanding when you need a license for the font, and if you do, which type of license. Currently, on MakersType, we split all fonts into three categories of allowed uses based on commercial use… Continue Reading ›

Coolest Font 2022

Our Coolest Fonts for early 2022

How are we already one-quarter of the way through 2022? We have lots of exciting changes coming to MakersType, but while those are still simmering, we wanted to share with you some of our coolest fonts from this year so far. If you have fonts you like would like to submit to our list, let… Continue Reading ›

Photopea Review

Photopea Review: A Great Free Photoshop Alternative

Table of Contents Why Try a Photoshop Alternative? Trying Out Photopea Concluding Thoughts: Is Photopea a Good Photoshop Alternative? Is Photopea a good alternative? Photopea is an online photo editor and overall it’s a great option. Especially if you just need to make some simple image/text-based graphics. We wanted to give our first thoughts in… Continue Reading ›