Design a Digital Font from A to Z

To the mess, drawing and testing letters 1

A course by Juanjo López , Graphic Designer and Typography Expert

98% positive reviews (199)

4,393 students

Audio: Spanish

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About the video: To the mess, drawing and testing letters 1

Overview

“We know how the letters are drawn, we know where to place them, we know how to reuse their forms, now we have to apply all that to create an alphabet taking advantage of the similarity between groups of letters to be sure. Prepare that will be long.”

In this video lesson Juanjo López addresses the topic: To the mess, drawing and testing letters 1, 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] In this lesson we will implement everything we have learned previously in the unit to create our alphabet, deriving some letters from others and taking advantage of parts of some letters to make others as simple as possible. When I decide to get a new typeface, It's usually something I have drawn, something that I have in the back of my mind, and every time I take a pencil I always start pulling towards the same thing and sooner or later I decide It’s time to turn it into typography. Although I draw words, the letter I always repeat because it's the one I like to draw the most, It i...”

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

Level: Beginner
98% positive reviews (199)
4393 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.