A typography coach that teaches the why.
InDesign assignment due, and the panels are fighting you? La Font Student sits beside InDesign while you work. It tells you the next click, explains the type rule behind it, and checks your file against the brief before you hand it in. It never does the work for you: the design stays yours.
Free to download. Use the AI mentor with your own OpenRouter key, or get the Student Pass with AI included.
Why that color?
In 2026, anything can make your graphic design or pick your type for you. The future only benefits the designer who knows the why.
Ask it what your class didn't have time to explain.
- Why won't my leading change? (Auto leading, and how to set it yourself)
- Kerning or tracking, and when to use each
- How do I make the text sit on a baseline grid?
- Paragraph styles versus character styles
- What is a parent page, and why is my page number on it?
- Why is there a red plus sign on my text frame? (overset text)
- Exporting a print PDF with bleed that my instructor can open
- Is this spot color too dark next to black?
Ask in your own words, inside the assignment you are working on. The Guide answers with the clicks; the Mentor with the reason.
Everything a type assignment asks of you, explained.
The Guide
The clicks. Each assignment broken into steps, with the exact InDesign menus and panels for the next one, written from the brief you were given.
The Mentor
The why. The typographic rule behind every step, from leading and hierarchy to color and value, so the next assignment is easier than this one.
Check my work
Compares your InDesign document against the assignment brief: sizes, styles, pages, the details that are easy to miss before you hand it in.
Color Lab
See a color on your own type at real sizes, with its value and contrast measured, and save swatches that load straight into InDesign.
Glyph studio
Shape letters, test them in a sentence, and export your own TrueType font.
Your work stays yours
Conversations, files and settings are kept on your Mac. La Font coaches; it does not write your assignment, pick your colors or make your design decisions.
Design students learning type in InDesign.
The assignment helpers follow the GR 122 typography course. The Color Lab, the glyph studio and the typographic mentor work for any type project.
La Font is an independent study tool. It is not made, endorsed or reviewed by any school.
What you needA Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or later). Adobe InDesign for the document checks. An internet connection for the AI mentor.
Free to download. The Student Pass includes the AI.
$29 for a semester (every four months) or $9.99 a month. Cancel anytime. Full pricing