Typography Design: Digitize Your Handwriting
From Illustrator to Fontself 1
A course by Cristóbal Henestrosa , Graphic Designer
Joined July 2019
Joined July 2019
About the video: From Illustrator to Fontself 1
Overview
“Your letters are about to become a typeface. For this, the Fontself extension will help you. I will explain how to use it in this lesson.”
In this video lesson Cristóbal Henestrosa addresses the topic: From Illustrator to Fontself 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Typography Design: Digitize Your Handwriting. Discover how to turn your handwriting into a unique digital typeface that adds character and personal style to your writing pieces.
Partial transcription of the video
“From Illustrator to Fontself Alright, now we are about to pass the letters from Illustrator to Fontself, What is a pay extension? but what do I think that in the cost-benefit ratio you'll want to use in this first project. In the Resources I will leave you the link from where you can acquire it. If you prefer something more professional, you can use software called Glyphs, which is the one I currently use, which only exists for Mac, and you can also use FontLab, that it does exist for both PC and Mac platforms. We'll move on to Fontself. So I go back to my vectorized letters. All perfect. N...”
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Course summary for: Typography Design: Digitize Your Handwriting
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Design, Graphic Design, Typography, Typography Design
Cristóbal Henestrosa
A course by Cristóbal Henestrosa
Cristóbal Henestrosa specializes in typography and book design. He has developed font families for clients such as the Fondo de Cultura Económica, Librerías Gandhi, and the Federal Government of Mexico, some of which have won awards from the Type Directors Club and have been selected for the Latin American typography biennial Tipos Latinos.
He is the author of Espinosa. Rescate de una tipografía novohispana (Mexico, Designio, 2005) and co-author of Cómo crear tipografías. Del boceto a la pantalla (Madrid, Tipo E, 2012), which has been translated into English, Polish, Portuguese, and Chinese. Since 2011 he has been teaching typography and type design at the Faculty of Arts and Design of the UNAM, as well as related subjects in diploma courses, specialties, and master's degrees in various institutions.
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