Every designer has a typeface in them. Learn how to make your own fonts using the Glyphs app, the industry-standard type design software.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know
- Exercise files
- Anatomy: The parts of letters
- Glyph sets: The parts of fonts
- Type measurement
- Type classification
- Font info
- Font view
- Essential tools
- Edit window
- Background layers and guides
- Kerning palette
- Menus
- A note on scripts
- Sketching, drawing, and refining
- Drawing in Glyphs basics
- Drawing letterforms in Glyphs
- Drawing characters in Illustrator
- Using filters
- Creating characters that share parts
- Completing the Latin characters
- Building figures
- Creating punctuation and reference marks
- Compound characters
- What are OpenType features?
- Ligatures
- Stylistic sets
- Fitting basics with metric keys
- Spacing by eye
- Spacing numbers
- Kerning groups
- The kerning game
- Font file types
- Testing fonts: Sample texts and strings
- Planning a type family
- Setting up masters
- Setting up instances
- Keeping masters compatible
- Next steps
Taught by
Charles Nix