Design a Digital Font from A to Z

The character set

A course by Juanjo López , Graphic Designer and Typography Expert

98% positive reviews (199)

4,392 students

Audio: Spanish

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About the video: The character set

Overview

“In this course we know that we are going to work with letters, but it takes many to work in more languages or writing systems. Not to mention numbers, orthographic, monetary, mathematical signs ... ”

In this video lesson Juanjo López addresses the topic: The character set, 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] Now I will explain the character map. We will learn how we can do let our source work in different writing systems or in different languages within the same writing system so we can type an A in our computers, and an A appears on screens, there is a need for a coding standard, that works in all languages, Typefaces and operating system. A standard that unites everything. This standard is the unicode, Here we see how you assign a code to a character, The uppercase A is code 0 041, when we hit the key what will appear on our screen this unicode standard will always be a, assign this c...”

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

Level: Beginner
98% positive reviews (199)
4392 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.