Beck McCormick

My Font Affiliate Program

My Font Affiliate Program

How To - Fonts· How To - SVGs

Want to earn money by sharing cool fonts + awesome SVGs?  I know, dumb question, who doesn’t love money for just providing a link? Join my Affiliate Program!  Here are the highlights:

  • Read up on the terms of my Affiliate Program to make sure we’re on the same page.
  • If you’re down to earn money by sharing links from my website to prospective customers, sign up!
  • Once approved, you’ll receive access to my Affiliate Area – it includes a helpful guide, suggestions on how to earn, images for you to use, & an awesome dashboard to track what you’ve earned.
  • You can share links by adding your unique affiliate ID to the end of any link from my website.  Whenever someone clicks the link you share, and purchases from that link, you get earn money! I offer a 10% affiliate commission rate!
  • Referrals stay attached to your account for 45 days – that means any subsequent purchases from your referral within that 45 day window also earn you $!
  • Visits are tracked with the affiliate link as well as direct link tracking (visitors from your web site)
  • Payouts are processed with PayPal every week

Want to learn more? Read on!

Get Their Shopping Cart to Pay You

An affiliate program is a really simple way to make a little extra money – both as a business, and as an affiliate!

woman on a laptop with a cup of coffee - used in My Font Affiliate Program post

For a business, people in your affiliate program will share products and content from your website. It’s basically someone else sharing links to social media, via email or newsletters, or even with their friends and family…someone else doing the work for you! The more affiliate links shared, the more likely your business is to make a sale! You pay your affiliates commissions based on the items they’re helping you sell.

As an affiliate, you can earn commissions whenever your fans, followers, friends, or family purchase anything from the link you share.

Affiliate programs are a great way to reach customers that you would have normally not reached! Although there is a bit of work involved in sharing links, the work is largely passive. I don’t know about you, but I love the idea of doing something only once and continuing to reap the benefits!

How Does Your Affiliate Program Work?

My affiliate program is actually quite simple. I want my affiliates to share links with their friends and family from my site. Since I offer fonts & handlettered SVG files, there are very specific people that would be interested in what I offer!

Do you know a graphic designer? Share a font with them, using your affiliate account. If they purchase, you get a cut of that! Do you know a crafter that loves to make cute gifts for their loved ones? Send them a link to my SVG Bundle; you’ll get paid if they purchase! (My extended licenses for commercial use are also eligible for affiliate earnings!)

Other individuals that would make fantastic referrals would be bloggers, apparel designers, sign makers, Cricut & Silhouette machine owners, or individuals that make and sell gifts on their own sites.

All information is tracked in the affiliate account dashboard. You’ll have access to your statistics, which include the number of links you’ve shared, the number of sales you’ve received credit for, and even the number of visitors that have come to my site via your affiliate links! There are a lot of interesting tools for each user within their account. I even include creatives to go along with it! In case you didn’t know, creatives are downloadable images for which they are easily copy/pasted links or codes that you can insert on your own web site. They all link up with specific products, and make your “job” of sharing products from my site easy peasy! With beautiful images already prepared, it makes sharing fonts and SVGs a total breeze.

Make Sure to Read My Terms (They’re Pretty Simple)

You can share as many products as you like, as often as you like. Just don’t be spammy! Your commission is paid weekly – you’ll only need a PayPal account to receive your earnings. The most important thing that I ask of any participants is not to generate traffic based on false claims such as fake coupons – that’s one of the quickest ways to irritate & lose your visitor & lose out on commissions. You can see the terms on my site here.

How Do I Track My Traffic & Commissions?

You’ll see customer traffic that is attributed to your account & commission information in the Affiliate Area section on my site. Any visitor that converts into a customer will result in a referral on your account & my payouts are sent out weekly.

Do You Provide Graphics Such As Banners, Etc.?

I sure do, you can grab any graphics (called creatives) from my web site here!

Ready to Join My Affiliate Program?

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How I Learned Font Making

How I Learned Font Making

How To - Fonts

how i learned font making

I was fortunate enough to stumble upon a font making course called Learn Font Making, taught by Teela from Every-Tuesday.  You can find her course by clicking HERE.  The information and support that Teela has provided has been invaluable, and I cannot recommend her course enough.  Without a doubt, I would certainly not be able to do the things I’m currently doing without her help!

Teela also offers other courses that may be of interest to you if hand-lettering is something you wish to learn!

Fantastic Flourishes

Bounce Lettering

Downloading Fonts: The All-Inclusive Font Bundle

How To - Fonts

Congratulations on what I think is the most epic font purchase of all time — the All-Inclusive Font Bundle, which gets updated *any* time I add a new font to my website!

Check out the instructions + pictures below if you aren’t certain on how to get to the fonts!

Your download will include a .pdf file, which contains the Google Drive link to the bundle.  There are SO many fonts that this is going to be the best way to provide continued, unfettered access, so it’s a bit atypical of what you may find with a font purchase + subsequent download.

Here’s what to do!

1. Click the link contained within the .pdf that gives you access to the folder. When you do, you’ll find that it takes you to a page that looks like the following image:

Dang, that’s a lot of fonts!  🙂

Next, you’ll have two options to download the fonts.  You can do this all at once, or one-by-one.

2. I’ve included a folder called “_Easy Single OTF Download” as of February 2020 – it includes the .otf for all fonts included, and will save you the time of dropping into every single folder to download the font you need.  You can hover over this item, at which point the folder turns into a downward pointing arrow — click, and Drive will begin to prepare your zip!

You can also click the _Easy Single OTF download folder, as well — it’ll look like this:

You can select “DOWNLOAD ALL” in the upper right to download the entire folder of fonts.

If you’d rather download all of the individual folders with the .otf, .ttf, and webfonts, you can still do that, too! You can select “DOWNLOAD ALL.”  Please note that this option will take a few moments, and works best if you have a strong internet connection. 

Once the .zip has been prepared, the download will start.  You’ll then access the .zip file through your browser downloads.  To unzip, you should only need to double-click, and then confirm any dialog boxes that pop up!  The window that appears should look similar to this:

From there, you can click through the folders to access the font files!  Read on below about my recommendations for what to install.

If you’d like to download the fonts one-by-one, you can follow the same basic steps.

3. Double-click the folder of the font you’d like to download.  That’ll open the folder up for you!

Wait…what’s the deal with all of these file types?!

For each font, I include five file types: .otf, .ttf, .eot, .woff, and .woff2.  The .eot, .woff, and .woff2 are webfonts — if you attempt to install these with a double-click, you will receive an error message.  Webfonts are intended for use by your developer, should you wish to utilize these fonts on your website for your brand.

That leaves the .otf and .ttf files.  They’re both functional font files that install on your computer.  I recommend the .otf file whenever possible because it’s the “newest” type of font file, and will support the most features.  I include the .ttf just in case you run older software types that require it, as opposed to the .otf.

4. Once you determine which font file you’d like to download, hover over the item, and click the downward facing arrow!  (Similarly, you could click “download all” in the upper right if you decide you’d like to have all of the files downloaded!)

You can then access the it through your browser downloads, and then install!

If you’re not certain how to install fonts, I would recommend reading up on that in this blog post.  For accessing OpenType features, please go to this blog post.

Accessing OpenType Features

For Font Designers· How To - Fonts

How to Access OpenType Features

(aka, the goodies in your font!)

opentype feature fonts

I love a good feature-rich font, don’t you?

In general, once you’ve downloaded + installed your font on your machine, it should show up in any program that accesses your machine’s installed fonts, like Word, Powerpoint, or even your vinyl cutting programs. Not all of those programs are cut out for accessing OpenType Features, though.

What are OpenType features, you ask? They’re the extra goodies — swashes + flourishes, ligatures, alternate characters, and such.  Not all fonts are created equal — some fonts are more minimal in their features, and some might not have any extra goodies at all.  If you try to find goodies, and you don’t find any treasure, don’t sweat it.  It probably means that the font didn’t come with any extra bells & whistles.

Some older versions of programs you might use don’t make it easy to access OpenType features (there’s a work-around below!) but newer versions are making it a bit more easy. You’ll need to do a little bit of reading to figure it out, but once you have that info, you’ll be unstoppable!

The Easy Button

There are a few different ways to access those OpenType features.  This is the first way.  Well, first-and-a-half, and both are the easiest, least time-consuming methods, but they require special software that is OpenType friendly.

The first way is the easiest way, using Adobe CC products, like Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop. Please note that older versions of the program may not have these capabilities like the most recent, up-to-date versions. In Illustrator or Photoshop, you can easily bring up the Glyphs panel by going to Window > Glyphs. The font’s full character set will display, and you can scroll/select the character you need!  A simple double-click with your Type Tool selected will insert the character into the box.

A second, slightly easier way — as long as the designer has programmed it this way — is to use your Type Tool, type out what you need it to say, and then use your cursor to highlight the individual characters. The options for the character should pop up in a box, making it easy to select. See?! One and a half ways 🙂  Check out the highlight + select option below!

The LESS Easy Button

(but still not too difficult)

The second way is a bit more tedious, but provides a work-around for anyone needing to access those special characters.  I program my fonts to be PUA-encoded, which means that all of the extra characters will show up in the Private Use Area (PUA) of a character map, annotated with a unicode of “EXXX” where the Xs are numbers assigned to any individual glyph. 

Mac users can use FontBook for this, and PC users can use the standard Character Map that comes on your Windows machine.  You’ll simply need to scroll through the characters, locate the one you’d like to use, and then copy/paste it into the program you’re working in! 

In FontBook, you’ll need to ensure you have Repertoire View turned on — you can find that by going to View > Repertoire.

In Character Map, with the appropriate font selected, make sure you click Advanced View.  Make sure the spot that says Group by has Unicode Subrange selected.  Scroll all the way to the bottom of the Group by window.  You can then group by Private Use Characters.

All of those special goodies should show up for you right there — then, you can copy/paste to your heart’s content!

Bonus Suggestion

 

As I mentioned in my post about how to install fonts, OpenType fonts are sorta the new kids on the block.  Since these feature-rich fonts are on the rise, other programs that access your computer’s installed fonts need to keep up.  Some newer versions of software, like Word or Pages, do have options to make finding + using those awesome goodies a bit easier.  If the software you’re using is relatively new, I would suggest Googling that software + version, along with accessing OpenType features.  You might just find a set of instructions floating around there that makes it even easier than the hunt for the perfect alternate through FontBook or Character Map.

If you want to check out Resfeber Script, shown in this post, you can find that here, along with a ton of other commercial use fonts!

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