Design a Digital Font from A to Z
Summary of the process
A course by Juanjo López , Graphic Designer and Typography Expert
Learn to design a font from scratch with Glyphs, Illustrator, and OpenType functions
- Spanish with subtitles in English
- 98% positive reviews (196)
- 4039 students
About the video: Summary of the process
Overview
“Let's see what are the steps necessary to make our typography. This will help us to know at what point we are and what will be next. ”
In this video lesson Juanjo López addresses the topic: Summary of the process, 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] Making a typography is not a totally linear process there are some steps that are fine to follow, but we can skip them, we can go back as many times as necessary. Explaining a summary of the entire process from beginning to end I think it will be easier to understand where we are in each moment of the course [Music] Although we may think that designing typography consists of in drawing very nice letters, this is just one step inside a lot of processes that make those pretty letters work well when we then see them on a computer, not only on the our; when we see it on a PC with Window...”
This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.
Course summary for: Design a Digital Font from A to Z
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Category
Calligraphy & Typography -
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Glyphs -
Areas
Film Title Design, Graphic Design, Traditional illustration, Typography, Typography Design
A course by Juanjo López
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.
- 98% positive reviews (196)
- 4039 students
- 34 lessons (8h 37m)
- 27 additional resources (19 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: Spanish
- Spanish, English, Portuguese
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever
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