Design a Digital Font from A to Z

Some wise advice 2

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: Some wise advice 2

Overview

“This is the second part. As you can see the tips are a few, I think they are important.”

In this video lesson Juanjo López addresses the topic: Some wise advice 2, 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] A tip for those who are doing this course and be your first source. I do not recommend you first get very crazy and want to make the best source in the world, We can't get very far. And in our first source we want to do a fountain with 6 pesos, with small caps, with all kinds of math signs and what I know. If we want them to have expanded and condensed, if we want to have a version for super small bodies, I don't know, if we start doing that Most likely, we will never end. The important thing about a typography is to finish it and that you finish it, and have someone install it on y...”

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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.