Tutorial: Designing with LHF Desire's alternates in Adobe Illustrator CC

Accessing LHF Desire's alternates in Adobe Illustrator CC

Tutorial: Accessing LHF Desire Letters (Photoshop)

Tutorial: Accessing LHF Desire Letters (Windows Character Map)

Tutorial: Accessing LHF Desire Letters (PopChar)


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Desire Rough & Ragged
Rough and tough is sometimes better. You'll enjoy these 2 distressed versions of the ever popular LHF Desire. Perfect for those designs that need to look weathered & rugged.

Desire Rough and Desire Ragged give the professional artist endless creative possibilities and make designing exciting and fun. With over 800 glyphs, it's a different font everytime you use it! Includes "Borges Catchwords 1" font free.

Special note:
Due to the complexity of this font set, it is not recommended for novice users. These fonts will not work with GERBER Omega. However, designers experienced with using OpenType Pro fonts will appreciate the freedom LHF Desire Rough and Ragged provide.

Since Desire Rough and Desire Ragged contain over 800 glyphs they can be memory intensive. If your computer is older and you find Desire Rough Pro or Desire Ragged Pro bogging your system down or crashing your drawing program, then please install Desire Rough A-E and Desire Ragged A-E. On the normal keys, you will see the same basic letters for all 5 of these fonts. The many alternate characters are spread out over the A-E fonts making them more manageable for older systems. You can access the alternate characters of these fonts the same as you would the Pro versions.

To learn how to access the alternate characters please view the tutorials at the bottom left of this page. To see which alternate characters are in which A-E font download the PDF Character Maps below.

If your software does not support OpenType programming you will need to use other free software to access the alternate characters. Windows users may use either the Windows Character Map, or download Babel Map. Mac users may use the "Character Viewer" to view and copy alternate characters.

Download the PDF Character Map guides here

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Rough Default Glyphs


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