Design a Digital Font from A to Z

Your friends the components

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: Your friends the components

Overview

“Here we will see the most phenomena way to save time and sweat when it comes to drawing our source. ”

In this video lesson Juanjo López addresses the topic: Your friends the components, 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] The letters are actually very simple forms and there are always parts that we will reuse over and over in different glyphs. How do you do this? With the components. Let's see how they work. One of the best tools we have in typography drawing to make our lives easier and automate tasks They are the components. The components are nothing else than a glyph that can be put inside another glyph. The main utility of this It is to make taps with diacritics. In this case, for example we have a glyph what is the A, and we have a glyph that is the dieresis. When I want to create A dieresis, t...”

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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.