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Creating Your First Font with Fontself Maker

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

Tags

Typography Courses Graphic Design Courses Ligatures Courses Font Design Courses

Course Description

Overview

Take the first step toward designing your very first font using Fontself Maker, an extension for Illustrator and Photoshop that allows you to quickly create OpenType fonts.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Design your own custom font
1. Design Your Font
  • Create a hand-drawn font: Drawing characters
  • Create a hand-drawn font: Tracing characters
  • Create a hand-drawn font: Making a font
  • Create a geometric font: Creating characters based on a grid
  • Create a geometric font: Preparing characters for Fontself
  • Add a new font style to an existing font
  • Create an icon font
  • Create a color font
  • Create a picture font
  • Create ligatures and alternate characters
Conclusion
  • Goodbye and next steps

Taught by

Nigel French

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