Get up and running with Fontself Maker, an extension for Illustrator and Photoshop that allows you to quickly create your own unique fonts.
Creating Fonts with Fontself, Illustrator, and Photoshop
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome to Typocracy
- Acquire and install Fontself
- Essential typography terms
- Understanding the baseline
- A quick start in Illustrator
- A quick start in Photoshop
- Essential knowledge
- Compound paths and shapes
- Optimizing artwork
- Setting metrics with guides
- Artwork preparation and font creation
- Deleting and replacing glyphs
- Creating color fonts
- Using Live Paint to create color fonts
- Creating bitmap fonts in Photoshop
- Removing white backgrounds
- Using the Guides2Layers.jsx script
- Creating vector fonts in Photoshop
- Adjusting glyph sizes
- Spacing and kerning
- Creating alternates
- Accents
- Ligatures
- Saving your font
- Template files
Taught by
Tony Harmer
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