Design a Digital Font from A to Z

About formats and programs

A course by Juanjo López , Graphic Designer and Typography Expert

98% positive reviews (199)

4,394 students

Audio: Spanish

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About the video: About formats and programs

Overview

“In this lesson I review the source formats and the software to make them. ”

In this video lesson Juanjo López addresses the topic: About formats and programs, 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

“[Music] In this lesson, I will explain a little the different formats in which they are the fonts on this computer and the different programs we can work with to create them Go for it. The first thing we are going to do, when viewing the formats and the technical part with which we will work, They are the font formats. Font files are the files that we will create when we design a typography and they are the files that we install in our operating systems to be able to use them. Before the most common formats or the formats that were basically they were True Type I type 1 TrueType worked on W...”

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

Level: Beginner
98% positive reviews (199)
4394 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.