Design a Digital Font from A to Z

Let's start a happy family Interpolation 3

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 3

Overview

“And a third part”

In this video lesson Juanjo López addresses the topic: Let's start a happy family Interpolation 3, 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] The first thing we are going to do is create instances. That is, create the intermediate weights that Glyphs has to do for us. We're going to our Font Info again, and well, we have our Regular, we have our Bold ranging from 92 to 132 and we have the instances tab. In the instances tab, well if you look to start it has a distance created as well as default, or something like that and we started well, because here comes the "N" and we see the mess he has made. So, the first thing I'm going to do is ... delete this instance, which Glyphs has created because he felt like it, let's say i...”

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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.