Design a Digital Font from A to Z

The Spaced 1

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 Spaced 1

Overview

“In this lesson we will see how to use glyphs to space our lyrics, and the Walter Tracy method to help us find the right rhythm.”

In this video lesson Juanjo López addresses the topic: The Spaced 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] Although all the glory is left by the kerning, really the important thing in a letter is the spacing. With a good spacing we will save a lot of work doing kerning and our lyrics will look much better overall. Let's see how we do it in Glyphs. Once the alphabet is drawn, let's learn to space the letters, like the TV cooks, I already have a prepared alphabet here, a basic alphabet in high box and low box and although we drawing may have created a spacing even provisional that has been good for us to see the alternations between blacks and whites, what I am going to do now is to charge...”

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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.