Design a Digital Font from A to Z

Horror, the kerning!

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: Horror, the kerning!

Overview

“Kerning is one of the most hated processes when it comes to making types, but if we have taken care in the previous step, you will see that it is not so much. ”

In this video lesson Juanjo López addresses the topic: Horror, the kerning!, 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] Kerning is the typical step when it comes to typography because that everyone knows because it is a source of jokes it's more or less like the Comic Sans of typography If we have paid enough attention to the spacing and drawing of our letters, you will see how Kerning is something of a ratillo Once we have our basic character set drawn and spacing and we have tried and we are convinced that our spacing is fine, or then and only then we can get to make Kerning pairs in our lyrics Let's try a very typical kerning pair that would be V and A high box Kerning is applied in the same way a...”

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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.