Tried a new font for a client's business cards and the spacing went all wrong

I was printing 200 cards for a local bakery and used a script font called 'Sweet Script' for their name. The printer software showed it fine, but the actual print came out with the letters almost touching each other. I learned that some fancy fonts need extra space added in the design file before you send it to print, which my basic program didn't do. Has anyone else run into this with decorative fonts and found a good fix?

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barnes.jamie1d ago

Ugh, script fonts are the worst for that... it's like they have a mind of their own. My old printer would just eat up the kerning on anything with swashes or extra curls. I started making a test sheet with a bunch of text boxes in different sizes and printing it on my cheap home printer first. You can catch the crowding before it costs you a whole batch. Sometimes just converting the text to outlines in a better program fixes the spacing glitch, too.

felix_fox1d ago

Remember my old laser printer would just refuse to print certain script fonts at all. It would spit out a blank page and then jam, like it was offended by the design. I had to keep a basic sans-serif font loaded just for printer test pages.