If you are interested in making sewing patterns for sale, there are many issues to consider and these are worthy of a tutorial series or course on their own. I’m also assuming that you are a hobbyist drafting for yourself. Now just to warn you, I am not writing a tutorial on “how to draft in Illustrator”, nor am I trying to exhaust the subject. Today as promised I’d like to share a few of my favorite Illustrator tools for drafting patterns. I want to put you all in a room together so we can geek out on subjects like bone structure, sleeve caps, and pattern puzzles. This subject definitely brings the patternmakers out of the woodwork! That makes me happy because I love patternmaking minds. The Sweet Type bundle is covered in this post and there’s another crafter friendly font bundle covered here and yet another holiday bundle reviewed here.After my last post about pattern drafting I got so many great comments about the various programs you use, whether as a hobby or professionally. They will also be available to all of your software applications the next time you open them. Your fonts will be available to preview in Font Book under All Fonts or by clicking the collection you installed them into. When you let go, a verification window may appear asking for your password. Bring the Finder window back to the front, or side by side, and drag and drop the selected fonts into the Collection of your choice or onto “All Fonts” at the top.Ĩ. Open the Font Book application (its built in to your Mac, type Font Book in the Spotlight Search bar to find it quickly) and (optional) make a new Collection by clicking the plus button at the bottom left.ħ. If you don’t want to install all the fonts, you can command-click to select just the ones you want.Ħ. Tip: You can select individual fonts and preview them by pressing the space bar. Select any one font name, then type command-A to Select All.
Click the name of the folder in the Search header.ĥ. (I install OTF as a rule of thumb, but you can use TTF if you prefer.)Ĥ. Type the letters “otf” into the search bar and select Postscript OpenType font from the menu that drops down. Double click to open the bundle folder and you will see a bunch of other folders.ģ. If it is zipped, double click on it and it will unzip automatically.Ģ. Locate the bundle folder, usually in your Downloads folder. Of course this same process of using the Mac’s smart Finder windows is handy for lots of other sifting tasks as well, and once you get the hang of it, you will use it all the time.ġ. I put together a 3 minute video, as well as written steps for those of you who prefer that. It’s really much quicker to do than to explain. This comes in handy when you purchase a font bundle, for instance. I want to share a quick Mac tip on how to install a bunch of fonts quickly, even when they are in different subfolders.
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