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Creating Fonts with Fontself, Illustrator, and Photoshop

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Get up and running with Fontself Maker, an extension for Illustrator and Photoshop that allows you to quickly create your own unique fonts.

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
1. Key Illustrator Skills
  • Essential knowledge
  • Compound paths and shapes
  • Optimizing artwork
2. Creating Fonts in Illustrator
  • Setting metrics with guides
  • Artwork preparation and font creation
  • Deleting and replacing glyphs
  • Creating color fonts
  • Using Live Paint to create color fonts
3. Creating Fonts in Photoshop
  • Creating bitmap fonts in Photoshop
  • Removing white backgrounds
  • Using the Guides2Layers.jsx script
  • Creating vector fonts in Photoshop
4. Refining Your Font
  • Adjusting glyph sizes
  • Spacing and kerning
  • Creating alternates
  • Accents
  • Ligatures
  • Saving your font
Conclusion
  • Template files

Taught by

Tony Harmer

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