Creating your own typography
Metrics and Kernings: application
A course by Wete , Graphic Designer and Typography Artist
About the video: Metrics and Kernings: application
Overview
“ In this lesson we will see how to apply spacing in our Fontlab document (something basic before exporting a font).”
In this video lesson Wete addresses the topic: Metrics and Kernings: application, 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
“Metrics and kernings In this lesson we will see how to apply everything we have learned about Walter Tracy's method at FontLab. So we open our type and the first thing we will do is Window, New Metrics Window. We click and this window will open. We will analyze a little what we have. The first thing we will see is this bar on the left. These would be the modes we have within this window. We have the Text Mode. In this mode, if we click, we could write inside our document. The second is the Preview Mode. With this mode it removes all the information from the Metrics. And then we have Metrics...”
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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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