Design a Digital Font from A to Z
The character set
A course by Juanjo López , Graphic Designer and Typography Expert
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
“I'll now explain what the character map is about. Let's explore how to make our font compatible with various writing systems or languages within the same system. This ensures our text appears correctly across different platforms. To type an A on our computers and see it on screens. a universal coding standard is essential. This standard must operate seamlessly across all languages. typographies. and operating systems. ensuring unity in character representation. This standard is Unicode. Here we see how it assigns a code to a character. The uppercase A is code 0041. When we press a key. an A...”
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Course summary for: Design a Digital Font from A to Z
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Category
Calligraphy & Typography -
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Glyphs -
Areas
Graphic Design, Traditional illustration, Typography, Typography Design
Juanjo López
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.
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Recommended software & tools for this course
Adobe Illustrator
GlyphsCategory
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