Design a Digital Font from A to Z

The Font Info window

A course by Juanjo López , Graphic Designer and Typography Expert

98% positive reviews (199)

4,393 students

Audio: Spanish

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About the video: The Font Info window

Overview

“We will take a look at this panel that contains very important information about our source. ”

In this video lesson Juanjo López addresses the topic: The Font Info window, 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

“In the Font info window we will set certain parameters that affect the entire typography including the whole family typeface that we can create, although for now we are not going to touch all the parameters of this window, it is important Know what it is, know what it is all for and later when our typography will see in depth so that They serve all your eyelashes. Well, now let's see a little bit the Font info window which contains a lot of important information about the source, really here we are going to fill in things that are data that goes then have the OpenType to work one way or ano...”

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

Level: Beginner
98% positive reviews (199)
4393 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.