Typography for Designers: Create Fonts for the Marketplace

Typography for Designers: Create Fonts for the Marketplace

“Congratulations! We have now reached the end of this course. Thank you so much for sticking with me! I really hope I was able to not only make you understand the creation of, the science behind, and the marketplace for fonts a little bit better―I also hope you now feel empowered to be creative and successful with fonts. Before you dive into your final project, let me quickly sum up the individual steps that will set you up for success. Before you actually start creating, I highly encourage you to explore what inspires, excites, and compels you in your work. Don't just run with your first idea: Creativity tools like oblique strategies are a great way to help you come up with creative directions you might not have thought about at first. Based on the three levels of typefaces, explore how you could make a typeface family. Apply what you wrote about bones, muscle, and clothing to each level of a typeface: figure-ground, size, and application.

Once you have a concept, take your ideas to your font editor to produce an in-use example of your font. Create a blog post about your design and share your process with us! To do this, you can use my reference as well as the template from the previous unit. Remember: We all need encouragement and guidance from others once in a while. Therefore, I hope you take advantage of the creative community by submitting your work and commenting on other people's creations in the forum. I will be there, too, to offer advice and feedback. You can submit your final project by clicking on the button "Create your project". Of course, you can also upload your design to social media using the hashtag #ThomasJockinDomestika. Talk to you soon!”

Partial transcription of the video

“Final Project Thank you for taking this course with me. I hope with these lessons you've learned how the marketplace and client dynamics work for typeface design, how you can apply research to your type design projects and you feel empowered and challenged to take on the world with your work. We began by talking about the relationship with clients, as well as the different marketplaces available online to sell your fonts. You learnt the three-step process recipe to make your own font based on research. Lastly, we went over intellectual property rights for fonts, how we manage clients and ho...”

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Course summary for: Typography for Designers: Create Fonts for the Marketplace

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (16)
• 1161 students
• 4 units
• 12 lessons (1h 41m)
• 8 downloads

• Category

  Calligraphy & Typography

• Software

  Adobe Illustrator, Glyphs

• Areas

  Digital Marketing, E-commerce, Graphic Design, Typography, Typography Design