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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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