Design Your Own Fonts: From Paper to Screen
Natanael Gama, Type Designer
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1. Let's Start
1:45 -
2. The ABC's of Sketching
4:08 -
3. Diagnose: Sketching Your First Letters
3:32 -
4. Improve Your Sketch
2:12 -
5. File – New. Digitize Your First Letter
6:00 -
6. It's “On”
4:35 -
7. Extending
4:32 -
8. A Pain in The “S”
6:50 -
9. Diagonals
5:49 -
10. Therapists Need Good Spacing
5:08 -
11. Kern Nerd
4:04 -
12. Export and Print
5:50 -
13. Do it All Over Again
0:48
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Project Description
Design your own font!
ASSIGNEMENT
Your assignment is to design a lowercase english alphabet.
Sketch some letters, sketch some more until you have a clear idea of what you want your font to look like. Bring your idea to screen using the bezier tool. Make optical corrections, space the glyphs and take a look at some kern pairs. Export and have fun!
DELIVERABLE
Upload this:
- A picture/scan of the “diagnose” sketch
- A screenshot of the node structure of some glyphs
- A poster sampling your new font
RESOURCES
Font Editors:
Glyphs (the one I'm be using on this class)
FontForge (a free font editor)
Sample Text:
Adhesion Text
Plugins:
Remix Tools
My Work:
NDISCOVERED
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Video Credits:
Recording and Editing: Nuno Conceição
Intro Animation: Rafael Silva
Theme Music: Simão Chaves
Other Music: Kevin MacLeod
Resources
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