Creating Fonts with Fontself, Illustrator, and Photoshop

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

Tags

Typography Courses Adobe Photoshop Courses Adobe Illustrator Courses Graphic Design Courses Vector Graphics Courses Kerning Courses Font Design Courses

Course Description

Overview

Get up and running with Fontself Maker, an extension for Illustrator and Photoshop that allows you to quickly create your own unique fonts.

Syllabus

Introduction

Welcome to Typocracy
Acquire and install Fontself
Essential typography terms
Understanding the baseline
A quick start in Illustrator
A quick start in Photoshop

1. Key Illustrator Skills

Essential knowledge
Compound paths and shapes
Optimizing artwork

2. Creating Fonts in Illustrator

Setting metrics with guides
Artwork preparation and font creation
Deleting and replacing glyphs
Creating color fonts
Using Live Paint to create color fonts

3. Creating Fonts in Photoshop

Creating bitmap fonts in Photoshop
Removing white backgrounds
Using the Guides2Layers.jsx script
Creating vector fonts in Photoshop

4. Refining Your Font

Adjusting glyph sizes
Spacing and kerning
Creating alternates
Accents
Ligatures
Saving your font

Conclusion

Template files

Taught by

Tony Harmer

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