New font looks washed out

#1

I made a font 3 years ago and it looked great.

Today I opened it, edited a few characters and saved it. After overwriting the old .OTF file with the new one, every character in the set looks washed out. As if a contrast slider was dialed down all the way down.

To be clear, the characters look correct in the Fontself screen in Illustrator. But when I click with the type tool in Photoshop, that’s where I see the problem.

Any idea if upgrading to the new version of Fontself caused this, or perhaps something else?

#2

Good Morning,
can you give me some more information, please.

Is it a black or color font?
Do you use the latest version of Illustrator (25.3) and Fontself Maker (3.5.6)?
On macOS or Windows?

Perhabs you can put a screenshot in here.

Greetings, Jens.

#3

If these are color fonts, mind that the OpenType-SVG format supports only RGB colors, while your document might be in CMYK (which will dim some colors).

#4

Yes, this was the problem. My document is in CMYK.

When I switch to RGB, the font keeps its rich colors.

Is there a way to make my font colors not washed out while working in CMYK? The final destination is printed material for a board game.

#5

Hello,
I have made a few attempts and cannot reproduce the problem.

Two of my coloured fonts created with AI + FS I used in Photoshop in a 300 dpi, RGB 8bit, document. Also the colour font Gilbert.
Then I changed the document to CYMK. The colours have changed, but the fonts still look sharp to me.
This is also the case when I use coloured fonts in a 300 dpi, CYMK document.

If you like, send me ( urs7000 at yahoo.com )your font and I’ll try it out with it too.

Greetings, Jens

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#6

Thanks for the offer Jens.

I tried to attach the font here, but it says “new users cannot upload attachments”

#7

see private message in here.

#8

Your suggestion to start with RGB, then convert later to CMYK with the “Flatten Image” option ticked worked great for me.

Thank you!

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