Design a Digital Font from A to Z

A little bit of organization

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: A little bit of organization

Overview

“I'm going to show you a way to organize the files that we will generate by making our source. ”

In this video lesson Juanjo López addresses the topic: A little bit of organization, 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

“When making a typeface we will create countless files From scanning old books You have scanned our sketches on paper Of course about 30 or 40 typography files That will be called My typography 22, ok. Definitive ... That kind of thing So let's explain a little How to put all these things in your folders And have folders for everything we find When we do a typography we will work with lots of files Especially because we will have infinite versions Until we reach the final. Almost every time we change something minimally important We'll save it like ... And we'll make version 01, 02, 03 ... a...”

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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.