What are /r/homebrewery's favorite Products & Services?

From 3.5 billion Reddit comments

> isn't available in GoogleFonts

That is the kicker. GFonts makes it very easy, and you generally don't need to worry much about the license. Here is a GFont that is thematically similar to Karasha, but I understand it is not exactly the same. But offering it in case the steps for Karasha are too much hassle.

Rough overview of the steps for Karasha follows....if interested in pursuing, let me know and I can lay it out further.

1. Download Karasha (.ttf or .otf)
2. Use FontSquirrel.com to upload font and convert to "webfont", download webfont.
3. Use Github account to then re-upload that webfont to internet
4. Use raw.githack.com to make that font available to Homebrewery
5. use @import to import font to brew
6. set font with font-family

Using Gfonts, you'd only have steps 5 and 6.

(also, Karasha specifically says only for personal use, not commercial, so just keep that in mind)

It is because the font used doesn’t have all available characters. You can change the font used though if you can find one that has the characters you need and matches the style you want.

First, is this just an issue with the font used in the headers (the top three, H1, H2, H3)? Or in the body text? Determine which font you want to replace first.

Then, find a replacement font. Generally it is easiest of you find a hosted web font…aka, look on https://fonts.Google.com. Google hosts these fonts for use anywhere, and this makes them very easy to import into a brew. The hardest part is scrolling through the hundreds of options to find what you need. Again, be sure the font has the accented characters you need (not all will). There may be other font hosting websites out there, but they are not tremendously common or easy to find.

If you have a must-use font that is not on Google Fonts, but you can get the file for download, there is a method of uploading it, converting to a useable format via FontSquirrel.com, reuploading that format to someplace like GitHub, and then importing into your brew…. Obviously that is a little more complicated (there is some info in the subreddit FAQ).

Next you need to @import the font into the brew style editor. Then finally assign the font to the correct css selector, something like this:

.phb h1 { Font-family:’times new Roman’; }

The whole process isn’t tremendously difficult (and is much better if you can just find a suitable font on Google fonts), but it is a process. If it’s something you still want to do but are unsure exactly how, I or someone else can help but the first steps are identify which fonts you want to replace, and what the new font is.

I'm a bit new to Homebrew, so I apologize for jumping on this post months after the fact. But if anyone is looking for a (free!) painting app, I would recommend Krita . In addition to Corel-like brushes, and photoshop-like filters, it also does vector editing, not just raster image editing. Especially if you have a touchscreen device and a stylus, it's really an amazing product.

Somewhat relevant, that's the site I've been using but sometimes it does this thing where the image that comes out has like masks and stuff removed? I'm not sure why, but using https://smallpdf.com/pdf-to-jpg instead has seemed to solve it.

Is the font that does seem to work also installed on your computer? I suspect it is....because if it is installed on your computer, it will likely appear correct on homebrewery on your computer, since your computer already recognizes the font. However, other people will not see that font working if they don't have it installed directly on their computer.

So if it's not installed on your computer, the font needs to be hosted somewhere that you can access. Typically this means you include them with your website files which is pretty straightforward...except, as a user of Homebrewery, do not have access to add your font to Homebrewery's files (though you could view all the files and copy them with Github, but that won't help you here).

Font sites like dafont.com host the fonts, but only for download. You are not able to just link to the font and start using it on your site. That would be prohibitively expensive for them (the hosting, licensing, etc)

But if you are Google, it's probably chump change. Thus, fonts.google.com. Google has collected a bunch of license-friendly fonts and makes them available to @import into your own stylesheets. All of the fonts from Google are very simple to include in a website or a brew via the methods you have already seen in this thread. You can also download them directly to your computer. 9 times out of 10, i recommend this finding a close match to your desired font from Google Fonts and just living with the difference.

However, you aren't going to find a close relative of Aurebesh on G Fonts. Which means you need to find a place that can host a font and which you can bring into the Homebrewery--- which like I mentioned in my first comment, is quite a few more steps and you'll likely want a Github account too (free).

I'm going to see if I can find these steps already typed out...i'm pretty sure i've typed it out for someone else way in the past, just have to find it....

By the way, there are a lot of "extended-latin" characters that this font doesn't have. You can go to Solbera's GIT Hub repo and download it, then open it up in a font viewer (like CharMap.exe in windows) to see everything in it. So anyway, this one character might not be the only one that trips you up. If you want a more comprehensive font that has all the diacritical glyph embellishments, you can try "Playfair Display SC" (SC = small-caps). It's not 100% like the Mr Eaves font, but it's pretty close. You can find it on Google open fonts: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Playfair+Display+SC

If you search this subreddit, you'll see a post with instructions on how to add fonts to your brew.

These are the Font Awesome free icons - you can browse them here. You should be able to use them by following the same format that you have already discovered.

Check out this example brew that I threw together.

r/Gazook89 I am having trouble changing the font to a different one.
I was looking at some fonts hosted by google but it wont switch =/
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Shadows+Into+Light?sidebar.open=true&selection.family=Shadows+Into+Light

What am i doing wrong, lol.

Not at the moment, no. I’m planning on putting together some basic “watercolor” images for people to mask their image of choice, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet.

In the meantime, I highly recommend using Flamableconcrete’s watercolor images.

I pop one of those images into Photopea (which is a free version of Photoshop), import your desired image into the same document, and use the bottom image to crop the first.

Lmk if you want a more in depth answer, and sorry if you already knew that last bit. I just remember it being difficult to figure out HOW to blend images when I first started Homebrewing.

I would recomend a mustard yellow for titles, like #ecb91e, this is what the 5e apps use when at night mode.

From memory - go to FontSquirrel, tick the "Yes I can upload font this for online use", upload the font file, open expert settings and tick "Base64 encode" under CSS, click "Download your kit", then extract the stylesheet.css from the downloaded zip file and copy the entire @font-face {...} section into the <style> section of your brew.

For my publication I used https://imgbb.com/ , you upload the images and create links. You can even put a timer on them to be deleted later (ex. after you export from homebrewery).

They have stated that the fix is approved and applied:

​

> This should now be fixed in all affected versions. For 72 it is expected that the fix will be in builds 72.0.3626.102 and later.

​

I would hope this means it comes out soon, since the current version is 72.0.3626.96, and a small patch update like this generally gets released more quickly.

​

If Canary is broken, you can try Chrome Beta which is the version they plan to release in March. It should also contain the fix.

A portable version allows you to run a software without needing to install it. For Chrome, try this: https://portableapps.com/de/apps/internet/google_chrome_portable

I have not tested this, so no warranties!

##### Credits

<ul>

<li>*[The Eight Oaths of Knights Article for Tenants](https://www.carinapress.com/blog/2016/12/the-eight-oaths-of-knighthood)\*&lt;/li>

<li>*[Wizards of the Swordcoast, Dungeons and Dragons Player's Handbook](https://www.amazon.com/Players-Handbook-Dungeons-Dragons-Wizards/dp/0786965606)\*&lt;/li>

</ul>