Creating your own typography
Accents
A course by Wete , Graphic Designer and Typography Artist
About the video: Accents
Overview
“ We design some accents and place them in Fontlab. Once placed, we will learn how to generate accents automatically.”
In this video lesson Wete addresses the topic: Accents, 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
“Generate accents In this lesson we will see how to generate the accents and some extra characters in FontLab. I have made a few accents in a separate document and some punctuation mark such as a semicolon always everything drawn within the same grid. And what I will do is pass these glyphs to FontLab to then generate the accents. The first thing I'll do is put the letters away since I already have them entered. I will select all and with the Pathfinder I will turn it into an outline. I do Command + X or Edit, Cut and I go to FontLab. I go to a character that has empty like space and I paste...”
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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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- Updated on 08/25/2020
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