Design a Digital Font from A to Z

Completing the character set. The anchors 1

A course by Juanjo López , Graphic Designer and Typography Expert

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4,392 students

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About the video: Completing the character set. The anchors 1

Overview

“Although the most difficult thing is done, there are many glyphs left to draw. In this lesson we will see how to create them and simplify this step as much as possible through the wonderful anchors. ”

In this video lesson Juanjo López addresses the topic: Completing the character set. The anchors 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 unit we will dedicate ourselves to all the processes that refine and finish our source. Now we are going to expand our character set We have a basic alphabet and we will create the letters with diacritics, the numbers, and spelling signs. When we are happy with our High Box and the Low Box are well drawn, well spaced and we have applied Kerning, and let's think we are done with that phase, we can get to draw the rest of the characters from our font. That is an order that I recommend to follow because I think the more controlled we have the source, the less amount of characte...”

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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.