Glyphs App Essential Training

Every designer has a typeface in them. Learn how to make your own fonts using the Glyphs app, the industry-standard type design software.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know
• Exercise files

1. An Introduction to Type Design

• Anatomy: The parts of letters
• Glyph sets: The parts of fonts
• Type measurement
• Type classification

2. The Glyphs Workspace

• Font info
• Font view
• Essential tools
• Edit window
• Background layers and guides
• Kerning palette
• Menus
• A note on scripts

3. Drawing Glyphs

• Sketching, drawing, and refining
• Drawing in Glyphs basics
• Drawing letterforms in Glyphs
• Drawing characters in Illustrator
• Using filters

4. Completing a Basic Glyphs Set

• Creating characters that share parts
• Completing the Latin characters
• Building figures
• Creating punctuation and reference marks
• Compound characters

5. OpenType Features

• What are OpenType features?
• Ligatures
• Stylistic sets

6. Fitting and Kerning

• Fitting basics with metric keys
• Spacing by eye
• Spacing numbers
• Kerning groups
• The kerning game

7. Exporting and Testing

• Font file types
• Testing fonts: Sample texts and strings

8. Multiple Masters

• Planning a type family
• Setting up masters
• Setting up instances
• Keeping masters compatible

Conclusion

• Next steps