Design a Digital Font from A to Z

Welcome and presentation

A course by Juanjo López , Graphic Designer and Typography Expert

98% positive reviews (199)

4,392 students

Audio: Spanish

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About the video: Welcome and presentation

Overview

“Here I will talk about my relationship with the letters and with my work, I will show you some examples and we will see what this course is about. ”

In this video lesson Juanjo López addresses the topic: Welcome and presentation, which is part of the Domestika online course: Design a Digital Font from A to Z. Learn to design a font from scratch with Glyphs, Illustrator, and OpenType functions.

Partial transcription of the video

“[Silence] [Music] Hi, well, thanks for buying the course thanks for being here with me let's spend many hours together I am Juanjo Lopez although I am also known for Juanjez because of Domestika because in 2004 he gave me to join the Forum and how Juanjo was caught and Juanjo López seemed very formal I put Juanjez since then people call me a little interchangeably in both ways call me Juanjo in the forum because I call me call me my name is Juanjo, I enter other things I signed up to Domestika forum to learn about design because I never really had a arranged design instruction when I was yo...”

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Course summary for: Design a Digital Font from A to Z

Level: Beginner
98% positive reviews (199)
4392 students
6 units
34 lessons (8h 37m)
19 downloads

Category
Calligraphy & Typography
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Glyphs
Areas
Graphic Design, Traditional illustration, Typography, Typography Design

Juanjo López

A course by Juanjo López

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Graphic Designer and Typography Expert

When Juanjo López joined Domestika in 2004, he decided to him to call himself Juanjez. Since then, it has stuck!

He is a freelance designer and passionate about graphic design and typography, always trying to keep learning whether it's vectors, lettering, calligraphy, or composing with lead or cast iron levers. His digital typefaces, under the name Huy! Fonts, are distributed by YouWorkForThem and MyFonts, among others. He is part of the Familia Plómez, a pre-digital typographic collective from Madrid, and Unostiposduros.com, the biggest typography website in the Spanish-speaking world. In addition to being a designer, he loves teaching and has taught a wide variety of courses and workshops on typography, lettering, and letterpress.