Design a Digital Font from A to Z
Your friends the components
A course by Juanjo López , Graphic Designer and Typography Expert
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
“Letters consist of basic shapes that recur across various characters. allowing us to use components for efficiency. We will explore the system and understand its mechanics to optimize creation processes. One of the most effective tools in typeface design for simplifying our work and automating processes is the use of components. These components consist of individual glyphs that can be seamlessly integrated glyphs. enhancing efficiency and flexibility in the design workflow. The primary purpose of this tool is to create characters with additional marks such as diacritical use it to make a c...”
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Course summary for: Design a Digital Font from A to Z
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Calligraphy & Typography -
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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
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