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
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
“In this lesson. we will put into practice all that we have learned up until now within the unit. Our goal is to construct an alphabet by creating some letters based on existing ones and using components of certain letters to form others in the most straightforward manner. When I embark on creating a new typeface. it often stems from something I've drawn or an idea lingering in mind. Each time I pick up a pencil. i find myself sketching the same design. Eventually. i decide it's to transform it into a typeface. While I draw words. i focus on the essence and character of the letters. the lett...”
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Course summary for: Design a Digital Font from A to Z
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Category
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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