Typography Design: Digitize Your Handwriting
Random font
A course by Cristóbal Henestrosa , Graphic Designer
Joined July 2019
Joined July 2019
About the video: Random font
Overview
“Lastly, I'll tell you how you can make your font look even more manual. To do this, I'll use the magic of OpenType and alternate glyphs.”
In this video lesson Cristóbal Henestrosa addresses the topic: Random font, 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
“random font Since we are making a manual source and the computer is not very good at being manual, we can trick her a bit through the magic of OpenType and generate alternative glyphs that are replaced each other to give the appearance that our fountain looks handmade. Now I will explain how. Look, I'll tell you very quickly. I generated a font called Cristobalina Alternates, which already includes several alternative glyphs for almost all characters in my font. All numbers have three alternatives, also all high case letters, also all casualties and also all the diacritics of Spanish. I sav...”
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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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