Creating your own typography

Overview

“In this lesson we prepare our Illustrator document to be able to design the type and pass it directly to Glyphs. We begin to design the word "nova".”

In this video lesson Wete addresses the topic: Grid construction, 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

“WETE Grid construction When drawing our typography in Illustrator, We must take aspects into account so that it does not give us problems in Glyphs. Now I teach you. It is important to do it the right way, since if not, our letters can be distorted or the stitches may not turn out quite right. So the first thing we will do is open Illustrator and create a new document. It is important that we make sure that we work in unit of points. We will open the Illustrator preferences, we will go to Units and we will make sure that in General we are working on points. This is important, since there is...”

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Course summary for: Creating your own typography

• Level: Intermediate
• 98% positive reviews (167)
• 3656 students
• 6 units
• 24 lessons (2h 55m)
• 12 downloads

• Category

  Calligraphy & Typography

• Software

  Adobe Illustrator, Glyphs

• Areas

  Design, Graphic Design, Typography, Typography Design