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Glyphs App Essential Training

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

Every designer has a typeface in them. Learn how to make your own fonts using the Glyphs app, the industry-standard type design software.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you should know
  • Exercise files
1. An Introduction to Type Design
  • Anatomy: The parts of letters
  • Glyph sets: The parts of fonts
  • Type measurement
  • Type classification
2. The Glyphs Workspace
  • Font info
  • Font view
  • Essential tools
  • Edit window
  • Background layers and guides
  • Kerning palette
  • Menus
  • A note on scripts
3. Drawing Glyphs
  • Sketching, drawing, and refining
  • Drawing in Glyphs basics
  • Drawing letterforms in Glyphs
  • Drawing characters in Illustrator
  • Using filters
4. Completing a Basic Glyphs Set
  • Creating characters that share parts
  • Completing the Latin characters
  • Building figures
  • Creating punctuation and reference marks
  • Compound characters
5. OpenType Features
  • What are OpenType features?
  • Ligatures
  • Stylistic sets
6. Fitting and Kerning
  • Fitting basics with metric keys
  • Spacing by eye
  • Spacing numbers
  • Kerning groups
  • The kerning game
7. Exporting and Testing
  • Font file types
  • Testing fonts: Sample texts and strings
8. Multiple Masters
  • Planning a type family
  • Setting up masters
  • Setting up instances
  • Keeping masters compatible
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Charles Nix

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