Design a Digital Font from A to Z

Hinting for clumsy

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: Hinting for clumsy

Overview

“In this lesson we are going to see the problems that the typography finds when it is shown on screens and we will learn how to prepare our source to avoid them. ”

In this video lesson Juanjo López addresses the topic: Hinting for clumsy, 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

“HINTTING is another one of those processes esoteric font creation which serves to improve your on screen display. Now let's learn to apply the. HINTTING in our source of a painless way. HINTTING are instructions that carry the TYPOGRAPHIES and that determine how they will look in low resolution devices, Usually on screens. When a letter has to be seen in 9-point or 12-point display, such as we see here it is impossible keep vector shapes what we did in the design, then with the HINTTING we tell you a little what are the parts you have to conserve, what are the parts at that we can give up f...”

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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.