1 00:00:07,190 --> 00:00:11,310 Hi. In this video we're going to look at what happens when you open up 2 00:00:11,310 --> 00:00:14,930 somebody else document and it says you're missing fonts, 3 00:00:14,925 --> 00:00:16,505 is missing images as well, 4 00:00:16,500 --> 00:00:18,120 but we do that in an earlier video. 5 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:19,790 I'm going to close this down. 6 00:00:19,785 --> 00:00:24,555 Okay. You also notice that it goes as horrible pink color for anything that is missing. 7 00:00:24,555 --> 00:00:27,225 So let's go and do that in our Tutorial. 8 00:00:27,225 --> 00:00:30,185 In this video we've been sent a file by somebody, 9 00:00:30,180 --> 00:00:32,120 but the fonts have come up missing fonts. 10 00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:34,340 If you're following along with the exercise files, 11 00:00:34,335 --> 00:00:36,435 open up "O2 Existing Work", 12 00:00:36,435 --> 00:00:39,925 open up "Green at Heart Prospectus" and it says missing links, 13 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:43,190 which we did in previous videos so go check that one out. 14 00:00:43,190 --> 00:00:45,580 But now we're going to deal with this one, missing fonts. 15 00:00:45,575 --> 00:00:49,735 Now, this can be a super easy fix or this can be super complicated. 16 00:00:49,730 --> 00:00:54,280 Super easy means it's a font that actually exists on Adobe's Typekit. 17 00:00:54,275 --> 00:00:57,505 Typekit is the name that Adobe calls it's font library, 18 00:00:57,500 --> 00:00:59,570 and what can happen is it can load up and it 19 00:00:59,570 --> 00:01:02,360 senses you don't have that font in your machine, but it says, hey, 20 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:05,080 you found Roboto Slab Light 21 00:01:05,075 --> 00:01:08,965 on Typekit and because you're a creative club member and awesome, 22 00:01:08,960 --> 00:01:11,820 would you like me to download it and install it for you? 23 00:01:11,815 --> 00:01:15,115 You can click "Sync Fonts" and life is good. 24 00:01:15,110 --> 00:01:16,730 Where life is harder, 25 00:01:16,730 --> 00:01:21,100 it's when it has no thinking here and it says I cannot find it anywhere. 26 00:01:21,095 --> 00:01:24,735 So what you need to do is you need to click on this "Find Fonts". 27 00:01:24,730 --> 00:01:26,870 It's going to tell you, in our case, 28 00:01:26,865 --> 00:01:29,505 it's Roboto Slab Light that's missing, 29 00:01:29,505 --> 00:01:33,835 and what we can do, I can click "Sync Fonts" here because it's on Typekit, 30 00:01:33,830 --> 00:01:36,050 but you might not have that option, often it's not. 31 00:01:36,050 --> 00:01:38,600 What you need to do is do one of two things. 32 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:40,850 You can replace it with something else, 33 00:01:40,850 --> 00:01:43,880 because sometimes if you're working across Mac and PC, 34 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:46,740 say somebody's used Times New Roman. 35 00:01:46,735 --> 00:01:50,065 Times New Roman is what a PC calls Times New Roman, 36 00:01:50,060 --> 00:01:52,150 a Mac for some reason equals it times. 37 00:01:52,150 --> 00:01:54,660 Same font, same attributes, 38 00:01:54,660 --> 00:01:57,140 so you might have to go and say actually Roboto Slab, 39 00:01:57,140 --> 00:01:58,490 I'm going to go into my list. 40 00:01:58,490 --> 00:02:01,520 This is the list that are on my computer and find it, 41 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:03,120 it might be the provision. 42 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:07,880 You might have Roboto Pro or something slightly different, 43 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:09,980 and you can go to replace it and you keep an eye on it and 44 00:02:09,980 --> 00:02:12,340 see if the font changes that might be exactly the same. 45 00:02:12,335 --> 00:02:13,855 Or you might have to go through and say, 46 00:02:13,850 --> 00:02:17,030 I don't have Roboto Slab I'm just going to use Arial, 47 00:02:17,030 --> 00:02:19,400 and I'm going to hit "Change All", 48 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:23,520 and it's going to go through and switch out every use of Roboto for Arial and 49 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:27,350 that's a sad day because Roboto Slab is nice and Arial is not nice. 50 00:02:27,345 --> 00:02:31,025 Another thing you could do is actually just ignore this. Hit "Done". 51 00:02:31,025 --> 00:02:34,415 Don't care about it and it's going to go this big pink color. 52 00:02:34,415 --> 00:02:35,965 I know is there. 53 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:38,000 I've got w on, off, okay, 54 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:40,330 and it goes this horrible pink outline color. 55 00:02:40,325 --> 00:02:42,235 Say I'm just doing a text check. 56 00:02:42,235 --> 00:02:44,005 I've sent it to somebody and they're just doing 57 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:46,110 a quick check of the text and missing the fonts. 58 00:02:46,110 --> 00:02:47,790 Don't worry about it, just leave it missing. 59 00:02:47,790 --> 00:02:49,970 Send it back to the person who originally owned it, 60 00:02:49,970 --> 00:02:52,190 who does have the font and it'll come back to life. 61 00:02:52,190 --> 00:02:54,020 If that's still not fixing your problems, 62 00:02:54,020 --> 00:02:55,920 you're going to have to install the font. 63 00:02:55,915 --> 00:02:59,545 You'll get a package document from your designer or whoever made this. 64 00:02:59,540 --> 00:03:02,000 It'll be a ZIP file and inside of it will be, 65 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:03,470 lets have a look at an existing one. 66 00:03:03,470 --> 00:03:06,860 I've got,let's have a look at our desktop and design class files. 67 00:03:06,860 --> 00:03:08,900 We made this package file earlier. 68 00:03:08,900 --> 00:03:11,030 Somebody might have sent you this and inside here 69 00:03:11,030 --> 00:03:12,950 is a documents font and you might find, hey, 70 00:03:12,950 --> 00:03:15,020 there it is then and all you need to do is double-click 71 00:03:15,020 --> 00:03:17,380 it and depending on what program you're on, 72 00:03:17,375 --> 00:03:20,275 I'm on a Mac, and I can just click "Install Font". 73 00:03:20,275 --> 00:03:22,795 If you're on a PC, it's very similar process. 74 00:03:22,790 --> 00:03:27,500 What I've done for this class is in your exercise files under missing footage, 75 00:03:27,500 --> 00:03:29,120 there's one called Roboto Slab, 76 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:31,340 and here are all the fonts that we need. 77 00:03:31,340 --> 00:03:33,520 In this case it's Roboto Slab Light. 78 00:03:33,515 --> 00:03:35,375 If I go and install this one now, 79 00:03:35,375 --> 00:03:36,925 life should be okay. 80 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:39,300 Go back in here. Sprang to life. 81 00:03:39,300 --> 00:03:42,010 If you don't have that font and it hasn't been seen to you. 82 00:03:42,010 --> 00:03:43,990 You're going to have to probably buy it. 83 00:03:43,985 --> 00:03:46,225 Some fonts are free, lots of them aren't. 84 00:03:46,220 --> 00:03:47,650 If you're going to go and buy it, 85 00:03:47,650 --> 00:03:50,180 I can recommend myfonts.com. 86 00:03:50,180 --> 00:03:51,670 This is where I buy my fonts. 87 00:03:51,665 --> 00:03:53,645 Fonts aren't cheap, or it depends. 88 00:03:53,645 --> 00:03:55,765 People would love to work into these fonts. 89 00:03:55,760 --> 00:04:02,520 Say that I need a font and I need to buy this vintage one that's been made. 90 00:04:02,515 --> 00:04:04,105 You can see here, this one, 91 00:04:04,100 --> 00:04:07,670 he is going to cost me €27. 92 00:04:07,670 --> 00:04:10,070 Bigger fonts, by that, I mean, 93 00:04:10,070 --> 00:04:13,970 it has a whole lot more characters and whites, 94 00:04:13,970 --> 00:04:15,610 then you're going to pay more. 95 00:04:15,605 --> 00:04:17,885 But this is a good place to go buy it. 96 00:04:17,885 --> 00:04:19,585 But there are plenty of other places. 97 00:04:19,580 --> 00:04:21,220 Pick whichever one works for you. 98 00:04:21,220 --> 00:04:25,150 I hope one of those options helps you with finding a missing font. 99 00:04:25,150 --> 00:04:28,620 Let's get on with this tutorial series.