Creating your own typography
Place our characters
A course by Wete , Graphic Designer and Typography Artist
About the video: Place our characters
Overview
“ We place our characters (previously created in illustrator) in Fontlab.”
In this video lesson Wete addresses the topic: Place our characters, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creating your own typography. Learn to design your own typeface and create graphic artwork with personality.
Partial transcription of the video
“Place our characters In this lesson I will teach you how to pass all the type that you have developed in Illustrator to FontLab. The first thing we will do is select the entire alphabet and we will go to Window, Pathfinder and join all the contours. This way we will not have loose pieces, but we will only have the contours. It is important that no letter is superimposed on another because the path will join you and you will not have them separately. What I do is also save this option as a plotted option in case I want to go back to the original, you have the loose parts in another document....”
This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.
Course summary for: Creating your own typography
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Category
Calligraphy & Typography -
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Glyphs -
Areas
Design, Graphic Design, Typography, Typography Design
Wete
A course by Wete
Juanra, better known as Wete, is a graphic designer specialized in typography. After working for various studios in Barcelona, he decided to carve out his own path and focus on what he loved most: typography. With that goal in mind, he founded his own studio, and alongside several friends, he created Ultra Types, a small online type foundry that specializes in display typefaces with a unique approach that sets it apart from larger type foundries.
He has worked on projects for top brands like Adobe, HP, Reebok, Desigual, W Hotels, and Mobile World Congress, among others. His work has also been featured in The Complete Guide to Designing Handmade Type by Charlotte Rivers, Page Unlimited (Sandu 360 Japan), Typodarium, Étapes, Computer Arts, and many more.
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- Updated on 08/25/2020
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