Making a Font from scratch in Adobe Illustrator, Fontself and Fontlab

In this tutorial I'll be taking you through the steps of making a font in Adobe Illustrator.

I'll be using both the programs fontself and fontlab. I find it useful to use both when working but the tutorial is designed so that you can use just one if you need to.

This class will begin with drawing the font using the line and shape tools, and then going through multi-lingual fonts, kerning, ligatures and weights, as well as exporting.

By the end you should be able to produce your own sans serif!

If however you're still in need of a font, ponte, the font designed in the lessons is available from my creative market shop.

• Intro Video
• How to draw a font in illustrator
• How to Make a Multilingual Font
• How to Make Ligatures in Illustrator an Fontself
• How to Make Ligatures in Fontlab
• How to Kern in Fontself
• How to Kern in Fontlab
• How to Export in Fontself
• How to export in fontlab
• How to draw a Bold Font in Illustrator
• How to Change Font Weight in Fontlab