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Creating Your First Font with Fontself Maker

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Overview

Take the first step toward designing your very first font using Fontself Maker, an extension for Illustrator and Photoshop that allows you to quickly create OpenType fonts.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Design your own custom font
1. Design Your Font
  • Create a hand-drawn font: Drawing characters
  • Create a hand-drawn font: Tracing characters
  • Create a hand-drawn font: Making a font
  • Create a geometric font: Creating characters based on a grid
  • Create a geometric font: Preparing characters for Fontself
  • Add a new font style to an existing font
  • Create an icon font
  • Create a color font
  • Create a picture font
  • Create ligatures and alternate characters
Conclusion
  • Goodbye and next steps

Taught by

Nigel French

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