Hello everyone, I’ve been wanting to purchase a brush pack from Heritage Type Co but I wasn’t sure if it would be compatible with Krita. I reached out to the company with this inquiry, but all they had to say was:
Thank you for reaching out to us. We appreciate your interest in our fonts. To be honest, I’m actually not very familiar with Krita exactly, but generally, it works with all programs supporting otf or ttf files. I recommend checking this with Krita so you are on the safe side. let’s say one Adobe Ilustrator is enough for all bundles Let me know if you have any more questions
Has anyone purchased from them to use with Krita? Should I make the purchase?
OTF & TTF are fonts, not brushes. These fonts should be installable in every modern operating system like Linux, Windows, Mac, and after you have installed a font in your operating system Krita is able to use these fonts. If Krita should not be able to handle OTF-fonts, you can easily convert them with countless online-font-converting websites, just ask google “font converter”.
If you have obtained brushes in ABR-format, because you asked of brushes, Krita can use the contained images as a brush-tip, so you can assign these brush-tips to a Preset in Krita and use it this way. But probably you have to play with the settings to get a result you like.
If you have further questions, then feel free to ask.
Michelist
Edit/Add: I just had a quick look at this site and can actually only discover fonts there but no brushes, could you please give us a link to the brush set you are interested in.
I was pretty sure otf/ttf were for fonts which was why I was confused they responded that way- this is the set I’m interested in buying. It mentions illustrator and affinity designer…
These software products are from Adobe and Affinity, with luck (I don’t know the file-format) you can use them as brush-tips, but in that case you have to adjust these brush-tips together with a preset (which is like the “complete” brushes in Krita are called, it is that icon you choose and provides the brush in whole) to create “your” desired brush from these “ingredients”.
If you really want to use Krita and the off-the-shelf brushes aren’t enough for you (and these off-the-shelf brushes are good brushes, really), you could get oodles of brushes from the post I linked above (and the articles linked in it), and if you absolutely want to buy brushes, I can also tell you about some additional paid resources, with brushes for Krita, but they don’t have to be better than the free ones - a price tag doesn’t tell you anything about quality and possibilities.
I took a closer look at the package. With what this package includes, I’m wondering where your interests lie, what do you want to accomplish, and if you plan to create “printables” trimmed to look old?
Based on your original question, I’m also assuming that you’re just looking into digital painting/art/graphic design/desktop publishing (DTP) and don’t really know where you’re going yet, what can be achieved with it. But with this assumption, I can be completely wrong.
I have the impression you might be better served with a DTP program, though this is only a vague guess based on the contents of this set.
And when I look at the price of this package, I have to take a deep breath, phew.
To create such text-heavy works as presented (advertised) in the package description, Krita is not the tool of choice, but if your long-term goal is painting, Krita is of course what you were looking for, only currently I’m poking around in the fog here, as I don’t know what you have in mind.
Possibly then a combination of Scribus, Inkscape and Krita would give you the most useful software set for this endeavor - possibly.
I just made this image in 5 minutes as a joke, something like this is possible with Krita, but all the prints presented in the presentation for “your brush package” are more complex and would probably be easier with Scribus. But larger projects often use different software for different steps, the artistic part is done with Krita, the vector work with Inkscape and the composition with Scribus, that’s standard.
If you want to do something like that with commercial software, it usually costs a lot of money, because these software products aren’t cheap, more and more often commercial software is only available as a subscription with crazy prices. But I would be philosophizing here if I continued (I have something against commercial software).
I would not pay 70 dollars for something I can recreate in less than an hour. What a ripoff. I swear these guys that resell content from other people and add a stupid image file to make it different get on my nerves.
Look the brushes as said before are for another software so it is a no go unless you hack them open but since they are for cs5 you should be able to. After that recreating the brush is needed but seeing the original would still be needed to see the original behaviour so… And I bet these brushes are not original either.
The templates are all recreatable and useless. Any ref image file from the internet and you can reproduce in your own way. And keep it fresh.
Fonts however are annoying but for that you can single them out in a image and do a font search and actually just buy the fonts probably much cheaper or find free ones that do the same. There must tons of old newspaper fonts around free and they must be the ones in this pack. People that sell fonts don’t make these packs. Probably everything inside you use once and you can’t use it again due to quality. But then again these people totally rip off the content of others so don’t know.
I have so much trash files from these people making packs. And this marketing speech to lure people in urgh.
Honestly I would just go to a search engine something like Pinterest and make stuff from scratch and just use new fonts.
Not sure if I can respond to multiple people at once on here; but thank you to everyone who has responded.
Personally, I am interested in the brush packs associated with the “Printers supply set”. I am looking for multi-stroke brushes/dashed & dotted outline brushes/stippling. My interest in the company’s package was mostly due to the fact that I’ve been unable to find brushes for any price that mimic this traditional/tattoo-esque look.
I get a lot of tattoo commissions, and am most adept at traditional inkwork; so being able to bring that into my digital arsenal would be exceptional.
Yes, you can. For mentioning or pinging a user, you only have to put an @-sign before the usernames you want to reach. The nice thing is, that if you push this button, the forum-software opens up a list of the users that have posted in a topic. It looks like this @morbidartisan.
What please is the “Printers supply set”, is this one of the sets of those cutthroats you linked above? I don’t recall seeing anything like this in Krita before.
Further, you write:
Could you upload pictures showing strokes of these brushes? So we could search for sets that contain such presets. (Please note that you can only upload two images per post. If there are many more, you could either merge the images into larger images beforehand or use multiple posts for that).
It seems to me that you are mainly looking for presets that are similar to “pens”, preferably ink, right? If so, would you like me to look for pen-heavy brush collections for you, I have a large collection I could look in?
Edit:
Just found this old sheet made for another user searching for weird Ink-Presets, but there are so many Brush-Presets for Krita
I will look into the brushes in the link you posted.
