Design a Digital Font from A to Z

The Bézier curves

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 Bézier curves

Overview

“It's time to treat the Bezier curves. If you understand how it works, it will be easier for you to draw letters.”

In this video lesson Juanjo López addresses the topic: The Bézier curves, 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] Bézier curves are the main tool of vector drawing. We will learn to use them and how to use them, specifically. For drawing fonts, to draw our letters in Glyphs we are going to use Bézier curves. Bézier curves are the curves that we should be familiar with, that use any vector design program Illustrator or InDesign, even Photoshop, and all typography editing programs They work with Bézier curves. Bézier curves have two types of points Good, are the nodes and the handlers. The nodes are in the curve itself or on the path itself, and the handlers are out of the curve and leave the nod...”

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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.