Learn how to create your own custom typeface using Fontself in this comprehensive video tutorial. Explore the challenges and benefits of designing fonts, discover historical and contemporary masters of typeface design, and understand the anatomy and terminology of letters. Follow along as the instructor demonstrates the process of creating a font from scratch, including writing, editing in Photoshop, vectorizing in Illustrator, and using Fontself to generate the final typeface. Gain insights into the different types of typefaces, letter groupings, and the unity of design. By the end of this tutorial, you'll have the knowledge and skills to design your own unique font and potentially enter it into a contest.
Overview
Syllabus
- Does the world need another poorly designed typeface?.
- The 3 challenges to making a typeface.
- 5 reasons why you should consider designing your own font.
- Who are historical masters of typeface design?.
- Who are some present day superstars of typeface design?.
- Example of design firms that have used custom typefaces (Nuts).
- Michael Beirut working on WALK NYC.
- Designers who make an income selling fonts.
- Terminology & Anatomy of typefaces.
- Recap of all the terms (screenshot this).
- What is the unity of design?.
- The 4 groups of letter types.
- The 3 different types of typefaces that Chris is going to make.
- Chris writing the font he’s going to make.
- Editing the picture of the font in Photoshop.
- Taking the font into Illustrator.
- Using Fontself to make your font.
- Converting a vector drawing into a font.
- Changing Futura to Futur Futura .
- What is Fontself?.
- Design Challenge.
Taught by
The Futur Academy
