Design a Digital Font from A to Z

Completing the character set. The anchors 2

A course by Juanjo López , Graphic Designer and Typography Expert

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4,392 students

Audio: Spanish

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About the video: Completing the character set. The anchors 2

Overview

“The second part”

In this video lesson Juanjo López addresses the topic: Completing the character set. The anchors 2, 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] Another thing that will happen to us if we make new glyphs starting from components and with anchors, is that even though I really can modify what I want, if I deactivate the automatic alignment , by default, the new glyphs that I create automatically have assigned the proses. That is, until I notice that the original A here is not going to be able to change the A with tilde. Do not put me directly A, if I tell you that I copied the values of the A, that would be exactly the same, warns me that first I have to turn off the automatic alignment, that is, as long as you do not turn off...”

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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.