Design a Digital Font from A to Z

Let's start a happy family Interpolation 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: Let's start a happy family Interpolation 1

Overview

“Well, we already have a source perfectly prepared for modern life, but is it okay alone or do you need to be in a larger family? Can you do something Glyphs to make the task more bearable? ”

In this video lesson Juanjo López addresses the topic: Let's start a happy family Interpolation 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

“There are fonts that do not But others need are in a larger family. In this lesson we are going to turn on the one hand To prepare it to appear correctly On the application menus And on the other hand to do interpolation That is, to force the gray work a little for us What is missing? Sources above all if they are text Usually come grouped in families Families give versatility to our source And help designers to solve problems The most typical ways to expand a source To have a family is to create different weights It is clear that a bold or one (inaudible) Fixes us many problems when we are...”

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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.