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1. Intro: Hey, I'm my favorite. And in this class, I'll teach you how to
create hand-drawn fonts on your iPad for a very long time, the idea of creating fonts
whilst a bit scary to me. I mean, I'm not a
lettering artist, I'm not a typographer. I just felt like there was so much to it to be able to
create your own phones. And believe me, there
certainly can be. And I'm not claiming to be
an expert at creating fonts, but I've found a way to
create hand-drawn fonts that after bit of practice actually
isn't that complicated. In this class, we will
use the app on self. I tried a few different methods, apps and online tools to
create hand-drawn fonts. And this is the best tool
that I've tried so far. At the moment, in June 2022, when this class is created, the app is free to
download and you can create the font
with the free version. But if you want to
export your fonts so they can use it
as an actual phone. You need to buy that. I bought the app for about €10. So it's not a huge
investment to be able to make professional-looking
hand-drawn fonts. When you have
watched this class, you will be able to create fonts to use in your own branding, in your design projects, or to sell any webshop word, For example, create a market. In this class you will
learn the very basics of how the letters and
the font is built. We will talk about how
to find inspiration, to know which type of hand-drawn fonts
you want to create. We will, of course, draw the
actual font and learn how to adjust the details so that your font will
look professional. We will export our fonts so you can use it
for all sorts of purposes and in all sorts of apps and programs in the future. If you're interested in
selling your fonts online, I've included a section
about this in class where I will teach you how to create presentation and reduce, how to upload your fonts to
your Creative Market shop. And my tips on how to sell it, do detailed design assets online to get you motivated
to create your own fonts. I've included one of our
favorite company fonts to download for free. When you watch this class, you're free to use it for both personal and
commercial use. You ready to create your
own hand-drawn fonts. Let's dive into class.
2. Your Project: Your project in this
class is to create your own unique hand-drawn font using the app font itself with a method that I
teach you in this class. I can't wait to see
what you create, so please do share your
project here in class, you can follow the lessons about creating images to
showcase your font, to get ideas on how to share
your project here in class.
3. Download Freebie: I've included one of our favorite company funds as a free download here in class. It's actually the same font that I'm working on in this class. It's called tiramisu. And you can use it for
personal and commercial use. To download the font for free. You can open the PDF that you
can download in class and tap the link or go to the
URL that you see on screen. Now, here you type
in your name and your e-mail address and tap Unlock to be able to
download your font. Tap the file. Tap Download. There you have your
OTF font file. To install the
font in Procreate. You can tap the file and
open with procreate. Now we can use the file in
Procreate on your iPad. You can, of course, also install this font file in your computer or any other
app or program as well.
4. Download the App: Okay, so the first thing
that we will do is to download the app from self. So go to App Store
and write in font itself if you don't find it
right in the whole name, fonts self, make your own funds. And this is the app that
you want to download. Then you tap Download and as
I've already downloaded it, I will tap open. And this is how the home
screen and fonts self looks. How to use the app
and all the details, all the features,
and all the tools I will show you later on in class. So if you have
downloaded the app, we can head over to the
next lesson where we will talk a little bit about the
basics of creating a font.
5. Font Basics: Okay, so let's start
with some basics of how a form is built. As I mentioned, I am not a typographer or a
hand lettering artist. I am, however, a designer and I have
worked quite a bit with graphic design and have
myself been using fonts to create different designs
for about a decade. So even if I'm not the best at the theoretical parts of
how a font is built up. I do have a sense for it and a base knowledge that I've learned and gathered
during the years. If you are completely
new to using firms and thinking
about creating fonts, it can be good to understand the very basics of how
a font is built up. I am all for knowing the rules so that you can break the rules. For me, that's the fun part
of working with design. And the beauty is that when
it comes to this type of hand-drawn fonts that I will show you how to
create in this class. You are free to
break throughs as the look that we're after
is a hand-drawn style. Strangely enough, even if
it's a hand-drawn font, I do how I feel
that if you don't follow any rules of how
to create the font, your font might end up to
look a little bit weird. Not high-quality. For me as I've been working
with funds for many years. It goes kind of intuitive. I know what looks good
and what doesn't. But if you're new
to creating fonts, you might want to learn a bit more about fonts and try
to use different fonts for different purposes and gain some knowledge about
Canada basics of fonts. In this class, I will just
share the very basics of how a font is built
up so that we can create specifically
are hand-drawn fonts. So with that said, let's dive in to the very
basics of how a font is built up so that we can start to create our own hand-drawn font. So let's start with the
basics of the characters. And I will just show you the very basics that you need to create the
hand-drawn font. There are more terms of a
letter and fun and all of that, but I will just show you
the basics that you need to know so that you won't get
overwhelmed with information. I also believe that you
don't need to know more than this to create your
own hand-drawn font. The very basics is that we have the uppercase letter and
the lowercase letter. We also have numbers
and symbols. And although those other things, but this is the basics
of the characters, we do have a few lines
that we need to know. And that is the baseline, which is this line, is the line that the
characters stand on. So if you would
create a character that is below the baseline, and one that starts above, it will look a little bit wonky. Maybe wonky is the look
that you're after. But traditionally, you build
a font that is standing on the baseline or has
the base, the baseline. So that's a good line to know. The next line is the x height. And the x-height is how high? Your lowercase letters
R is the height from the baseline to this line, that's called the mean line. This is the x height, the height of your
lowercase letters. As I mentioned, this line
is called the mean line. And that is where your
lowercase letters, the lower part of your
lowercase letters. If this would have
been D, for example, this line falls at the top of many of the
lowercase letters. The last line that we will
talk about is this top line. And that is what we
call the cap height. So that is where the top of
your uppercase letters go, and also the top of
some lowercase letters. So that was the very basics of how you draw your characters. Now let's have a
look at some fonts. So let's move on to some styles. In this class, we will
create hand-drawn fonts. On some sites. They have hand-drawn as a classification or
category of font. And in some sites they don't. If you, for example, make a font to sell. On credit markets, you have the different
categories to the left, black letter script,
non-Western sans serif Script, Serif, Slab Serif and symbols. And then you can browse by this style and here you
can find handwriting. So on some sites, handwritten fonts are a category and on some sites
it's more of a style. Then you need to categorize your hand-written fonts
in a different category. The tricky part is that a handwritten font can
be a display font, san-serif font,
or a script font. It all depends on how your
handwritten font looks. The handwritten
style is a little bit flexible, if
you will say so. And that's also what I feel is really fun with
hand-drawn fonts. That there aren't too many
rules that you need to follow. They are more free to
create how you want, because they are supposed
to be hand-drawn. Another thing that we can look at is the weight of a form. So you have the thin
and skinny fonts. You have. Mediums seem in bold, bold, and all those
different weights. If you have different funds
in an app or a program, you can see for some firms, you will have different weights. That's also good thing to think about when we create
our hand-drawn fonts. Do you want to
create a thin font or a bold font or
something in between. Another thing that is good to have in mind when you create your hand-drawn fonts is the
width of your characters. So this can make your characters
look really different. If you have a thinner with the characters are
more condensed, then you can have
a wider and that will make your characters
look completely different. So that's all of the basics
that I think that you need to know to be able to create
your own hand-drawn fonts. There are of course, much more to typography
and letters. And there's many more
terms that you can look up if you are interested. But in this class, as we are
creating hand-drawn fonts, I think that these basics
are all let me know. So let's move on to the next lesson where we will talk about finding inspiration.
6. Find Inspiration: Okay, so let's talk about
finding inspiration. It can be quite difficult
to just start to create the hand-drawn font if you never have created a font before, I will show you
some sites that I use, partly for inspiration, and also when I
need a font to use that isn't hand-drawn
or that is hand-drawn, but I haven't created it myself. So these are some sites
that some art free, like Google Fonts, and some are free if you have an
Adobe subscription. Some fans are completely free, and some fonts you need to buy. But these sites,
as I show you now, are just to understand phones. Have a look at them and see which type of hand-drawn
font you want to create. It's not about
copying another font. That's really important
that you don't do that. But it's defined inspiration to see what type of hand-drawn
font you want to create. So let's have a look
first at the Adobe site. I will show you
five sites today. Three of these are my favorites. So one of the favorites
is the Adobe fonts. If you have an Adobe
subscription, this is included, you can download these fonts to your programs to Creative Cloud. So I usually have a look here and see if I can find something
that I find inspiring. Adobe actually has a
hand-drawn classification. So you can tap hand or here. And it also have some
tags if you want to try to find some
very specific font, let's us use hand over here. If you want to. I usually do this. I am tap images because I
think it's a little bit confusing to see all of these
images in different colors. So I just untap images and you can also tap
grid if you want to see the forms next to
each other, like that. Or if you want the
list and scroll down. Let's use the list. Here you can see different
types of hand-drawn fonts. You have the, you have the hand-drawn fonts
that is a bit calmer, like to take down over here. You have the ones that is
a little bit more wonky, like Kremlin over here. So hand-drawn fonts can go
into many different styles and they bring
different feelings to the design depending on, of course, how they look. So have a look at different hand-drawn fonts here and see if you find something that
you find inspiring. I think that a good type
of font to start with is, is kind of like this. I'm ethic. One more sample font with only uppercase
letters and nothing that is too hard to draw. So that's good to have in mind. So let's continue
with the other sites. Google Fonts is
also a great site. You can type categories here and they also have a
handwriting category. So let's check in the
handwriting category. And then we can
scroll down to see different type of hand-drawn
fonts here as well. They also have the thick fonts. They have some more like
cursive hand-drawn fonts that almost feels
like someone just wrote it by hand over here. So a good thing to have in
mind is that if you want to create this type of font
where the characters meet up, It's much more complicated. So you probably need quite a bit of practice before
you can get them right. In this class, we will keep it much more
simple than that. As this probability
is the first or one of the first fonts
that you have created. Okay, so that's Google font. So have a look and see if you find something
that inspires you. Font Squirrel is another site that you can use to
download free fonts. They have categories
down here that you can, for example, type in hand-drawn. And here you get a
few different fonts as well to be inspired by. Let's move on to Font spring. They also have some
classifications. And here you can, for example, search with a tag hand-drawn
and see what you get. So this is kind of a
fun font, two fingers. That will be a fun type of
font to be inspired by where your letters can go up and down from the baseline as
we talked about before. And that will make it
more wonky looking. The last site that you can have a look at is Creative Market, which is where I sell my fonts
in our fame company shop. So here I have the five fonts
that I have created so far. And later on in class, I will show you how to sell your fonts on
Creative Market if you're interested in that. But for now, you can check
hand-drawn fonts here, bros by style,
handwriting under font. And you can have a look at
allophones and see if you find something that
feels inspiring for me. When I get inspired
by other fonts, it's more the feeling of the font than
the actual letters. So let's say this one is kind of a bold Bob lead type of font. And it has kind of a sixties
or seventies feel to it. So maybe that is something
that you would like to create. Or let's take, and I don't
want to set an example. Let's take this
one magic marker. And this is a more
simple hand-drawn font with all the same height of
the letters and all of that. So have a look at different
fonts and get inspired. But remember to not copy
anything about another font. Try to make it your own. But there's nothing
wrong with getting inspired by different fonts. You can even get inspired by different fonts that
aren't hand-drawn. Let's take a look at, for example, san-serif
fonts at the Adobe site. And maybe you can
find something that inspires you with
these fonts as well. For example, this
condensed Look, maybe you like that,
you can translate that into hand-drawn font. Or this more kind
of square look. Or that your letters
are really wide. So have a look at different
fonts sites and see what type of hand-drawn
fonts you think look good. Because I think that
it's best if you create the type of font
that you like yourself. That way it will be
more fun to create and also easier for you
if it comes natural. So have a look and see which type of inspiration
you can find. I think that for this class, I will use this font
as inspiration. So if you want to
follow along in class, you can use that one too. It's very easy to find
at both Google font and the Adobe font site. But you can of course also find your own font inspiration.
7. Tools and Settings: It's finally time to head into the app font self and
start to create our fonts. So let's take a look at the
home screen and fonts self. The first thing
that you choose is which template or if you want to start
with a blank sheet, I usually start with a template, which means that you
have some letters in the background with low opacity. Then you can use to have as guidelines when you
draw your letters. It doesn't mean that
you need to draw the exact letters that
are in a template, but it can be good
to use as a guide. So let's have a look at some
of the different templates. You have, the hand letter
template, the template, this grip, go graph
and san-serif. So far I have used the hand curl or sans serif as
templates when I draw, I often think that san-serif
might be the easiest one to start with because it's the
simplest type of letters. So they are great
to use as guides. You might get a little
bit confused if you use the current template
and it can feel like you want to just draw exactly the same
letters as you see. So let's start
with a sans-serif. You tap that template and
now we can start to draw. So let me take you through the app and how it works
a little bit at first. So you know which
different tools to use and where to tap to make
different settings. First, let's have a look
at the top left corner. You have the home button, which will take you back
to your home screen. I'll just tap into
the template again. You have your settings
where you can choose to show or view your
template characters, guides, which will
bring in these lines, cells, and grid, which
will give you these dots. Then you can choose to draw with your finger
if you want to. Normally, I don't have draw
with my fingers turned on. But I think it's a good
health to have all of the other settings turned on, at least at first, until we can get a grip at
how to draw our letters. So I turn on the template
characters guides, cells and grids under Settings. Here's a little Help and
Support menu where you can contact the app support and watch tutorials
and things like that. And there you have the
undo and redo button. But you can also tap with two fingers to undo and
three fingers to redo. That's a great little shortcuts. Then we have this
selection tool, which means that if you
have drawn something, you can select the part
that you have drawn. When you have selected
something, Let's zoom in. You have a little
quick pop-up menu here where you can
copy your letter. You can turn it
around horizontally, reflected horizontally,
reflect it vertically, and erase it. If you copy a letter and 12, for example, paste
it to another box. I found that what works best if that you not just tap the box, but if you just tap and drag to make a selection
and at the box, and then tap the Paste button. So that way you can
copy a letter or shape to another letter box. So that's a great shortcut to
create your whole alphabet, is, that is what you want to do. For example, have the same oh, shape with the letter Q and
O, or something like that. I will show you an example
of that later on in class. Select this tap little bin, select that and tap the little
bin to erase our letters. Next, we have the drawing tool. You have many different
drawing tools here. The brush with different
settings, size, roundness, pressure, angle, use pen
direction and streamline. My best tip here is
just to try it out and see how you want these settings to be with the different
letters that you draw, because it will be
different depending on what type of font
you want to create. So normally I just
experiment and try it out. Do I want the complete round brush or a little bit angled? And try it out to
see what you want. Streamline is great. If you want smooth lines and if you want
more wonky lines, you don't need to
have streamline at all turned up
high percentage. If you can reset
your settings here. If you want to go back to
the standard settings. So that was the
brush, the pencil. You don't have that
much alternatives. You have the size
and the streamline. For me, the pencil is
great for details. So if I, for example, have drawn a letter, Let's draw a letter
with a brush. Just as an example. Then I want to go into the
details and smooth things out. I usually use the pencil
and a really small size, maybe just ten or 20. Let's use ten. And I can go into these
details and draw them in so that I get my letter to
look as I want it to look. The pen is something that I
actually haven't used so far. We can experiment with that. You have different settings
with a pen as well. And then you have this one. I have no idea how to
pronounce that Kuala maybe. But that one is a bit
more of a flat style. You have the marker. So for me, the first one, the brush and the pencil, or the ones that
I've used so far. The next tool is
the eraser tool, and you can tap into
that and adjust the size of the eraser to like really big or really small. You can adjust the
roundness, the pressure, the angle, streamline,
use pen direction. And here you can
even choose if you don't want that many settings. But under the settings, you can also choose
Trim strokes, and that is a great way to
erase letters if you want to, for example, erase a part
of a stroke like this. So you can just scribble
and it erases the stroke. Next is the font settings. And we will go through
that a bit more in the lesson about how to adjust
the details of the fonts. I will save that for later. And here you have the
linear export option where you can export
your font file, type and showcase, which I will show you more
later as well. Here are some
instructions of how to use your forms in other apps. Down to the right, we have some options
to include or not include different things
in our character sets. They're called here. So if we zoom out a bit, you can see that we now
have the uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, and the punctuation
and the symbols. If you tap the language, you can choose from these languages, spanish,
English, French. That way you can
create a font that supports all of these languages. However, have only
creative fonts that support English
language so far. But if you want to, you can create letters that are supporting all
of these languages. Let's zoom out a bit again. And here we can see
what happens if we choose different
types of categories. So maybe you want the font
with only uppercase letters. Then you tap out the lowercase and you have
the uppercase included. You can also choose to only have uppercase and lowercase
and no numbers, no punctuation and no symbols. For me, I use all of
these categories, or I tap out the lowercase f, I want to create an
uppercase letter fought. For this class. Let's create an only
uppercase font. If you want to experiment
with lowercases as well, you can do that later on. But to keep it
simple and to keep the process a little
bit more quick, let's just use the uppercase down here you can
choose if you want, like the extended version with more symbols and
things like that, or the basic or more. I usually keep it at basic. And as I mentioned
before, only English. So these are the settings that
I will use in this class. Another great thing to know is that when we
draw our letters, Let's delete that one
and use the brush pen. When we draw our letters, you will see the
letters live up there. Which means that you can
see how they work together. When you build your font. If you tap in this box, you can also write other
things in this box. Or copy and paste text. Usually when I build a font, I just look at the texts
that is there already. But you can, if you
want to copy and paste or write your
own text in this box, and you will see how your letters work with
the text that you write. Okay, so let's move on to the next lesson where we will actually start to draw our font.
8. Drawing the Font: Okay, so now it's
time to actually start to draw our fonts. I will look at my inspirations. So I will swipe up
and get my Dock Menu. And then I will go into this inspiration
font that I had here on Google that was
called automatic. So normally, if you have some inspiration
that you want to look at, I usually just look like
in the start when I build a font so that I don't
accidentally copy a font. Normally it's more of the feeling of the font
that I want to focus on. More than to redraw
the actual formed and copy its letters
because that is not what we want
to do in this class. But let's start with this. We have our font over here. And you can just study
your inspiration and see what it is that
you like with this font. So I think that what I like with this font is that
it's a little bit wonky, and I liked that the lines
aren't equally thick. So that means that
I want to have some pressure on my brush. So I tap the brush. Here, I can select the size and this size means the width. So that means if you want kind of a thinner type of font
or a bolder type of font. And we will just
try something out. So let's start with 50
and see how that looks. And I would just assume n to the a and draw something to
see how I liked that line. I will go up in the roundness and see
if I like that more. I think I like this pretty round and I can experiment
with the pressure. So if you like that kind
of brush script look, you probably want high on the pressure because
that way you can get the really thin line and
really thick line depending on the pressure that you
put on your Apple pencil. I will leave mine
to 70 for this. And let's try serum, dangle and streamline. I want pretty high. Let's keep it at 80. So I
will try these settings. Size 50, roundness, eight
per cent pressure 70, angle 0, and streamline AT, and let's see how it goes. So I use the selection
tool to select all of these strokes and then I tap
the bin to erase them all. Now when I try it out my brush, I am ready to start
with my letters. So let's try an a. I have my dots turned on here, my guides, so I can measure my letters
within these thoughts. I could, if I wanted
to keep it simple, use the characters in the background as a guide and keep my characters
the exact width. But I want this kind of more narrow looking
characters, condensed style. So I will keep mine at 123. Let's try to draw them
with four dots in-between. Then it's all a matter
of experimentation. So at this point, I just experiment with
different types of letters and see which type of font
I want to create. For me. I like the
look of this line. I liked the thickness
and I liked that it's not exactly the
same width everywhere, but still not too much of a
difference as it is here. So I really liked this
look of this letter. And my process works like this, that when I found a letter, the a that I like, I continue with the letters to see if I like the overall look. Somehow the text
disappeared from over here, so I will just type it in again. The Quick Brown Fox
jumps over the lazy dog. So normally when
I'm at this stage that I like a letter
that I've created. It's all about
experimentation for me. I don't have this fixed idea of exactly how my font will look
before I start creating it. So when I have found
one letter that I like, I don't spend that much time on the details
of that letter before I have created a
bunch of other letters, or maybe all of the
uppercase characters before I go in and
fix the details. So I will move on to B. I want to see my a
when I draw my B. So I will remember that I
kept four dots in-between. I can start my B over here and draw it down
to the baseline. And then I can
decide where I want the strokes of the
beat to meet up. So when you draw
hand-drawn font, as you can see here, these lines don't
need to add up. The line on the a
doesn't need to add up where the line
on the E and H are. But as you can see that they
have done in this font, is that those lines, the HD, our end up on the same height. I think that that is a part of what makes the font
look well balanced. But as it's a hand-drawn font, you can do however you wish. You can see when you have
created all of the letters, how it looks and make changes if you think that
it doesn't look good. So I will just remove
my inspiration. If you need to look
at your inspiration more, you do that, but I would just
remove my inspiration so that you can see on screen, my font will continue to draw. And as I have the line
of the a over here, let's just make a little
line there so I can see it. I would try to meet up with the lines on my B
over there as well. And I always look
up there to see how I feel about the characters. And if they are matching
in the style together. We just remove that little line. So far I think it
looks good up here. This part of the
process is detailed, but at the same time, I don't focus too much on the
specific details like that. There's a little bump
here in my stroke. I will fix that later on. But I want the overall look on my characters to
be kinda matching. And if I get stuck
on a character, I just continue and
move on and draw something to be used
as that character. And if I feel that
it doesn't fit in, I can always change it later on. Sometimes for me it feels that some characters are harder
for me to draw than others. So then I just move
on to not get stuck because you can
really get stuck on a letter for a very long time. As you see here, the letters show up
in this textbook. Does it show up, up here where I wanted my alphabet to be? So I would just type
in my alphabet. Normally you will get
the Quick Brown Fox jumped over the lazy dog. And that's enough to see how your letters work well together. But if you want to, you can also type in the
alphabet, like I'm doing here. Okay, So I will continue
to draw my letters and I will speed
up the process for you a little bit because
it will probably be really boring to
watch in real time. But what I'm thinking about is the overall look of my letters. And I want them to match
well together with the mood that I want
to set for my font. I also want to make sure
that I have the same size of my letters because
that is the look that I want in this font. Then I just continue to draw. I will draw the
uppercase letters now. And if it's something
that I want to mention, I will let you know in
the middle of it all. For some letters
like from E to F, you can copy your E, tap and drag with
the selection tool and tap the little
copper symbol. And then tap and
drag in the F box. And you can select the parts of the E that you don't
want and delete that one. And that way you get a font
that are really balanced. But this, of course, takes
away a little bit of the hand-drawn feeling because these letters are
exactly the same. But it's kinda shortcuts
a quicker way of creating a font that you can duplicate the letters that are
matching in shapes. You can twist and
turn the canvas around to make it easier
to draw your letters. You can tap into a
letterbox to make it zoomed in and only
focus on that letter. If you tap the X symbol, you will get out
of that zoomed in view and you will get
your dots back together. I have no idea why
the dots aren't showing when you have
the zoom in view. For me, it's easier
to have the dots. So I typically don't
use the zoom in view. Okay, so now I have drawn all of the letters that I
will have my phone. I think that the
overall look is good. They are matching. I liked the feeling of the font. There are of course, some details that I want
to adjust later on, but I will keep it
to the next lesson where we will go in and fix all of the
details of the font. But the first step
here is to draw the letters and get a feel for, is this the type of font
that I want to create? I will now move on to draw the numbers and the
symbols and punctuation. When it comes to the
punctuation, you can, of course, increase your size. Let's take the pencil. Increase the size and
you can just make adults if you want to
make it completely round. That was a little bit too big. Let's go for 80. Something like that. Or you can, if you
want to draw the dots, I like to draw it
out as it's supposed to be like a hand-drawn font. So I like it to be a little
bit wonky and not perfect. Why do you can do, which
is pretty efficient, is to copy your dogs
with the selection tool, paste it in, for example, the comma and all of the punctuation symbols that
are supposed to be the same. So that's a quick
way of creating these type of characters. Okay, so now I have drawn
all of these characters, and it's time to go in
and adjust the details. Let's head over to
the next lesson.
9. Adjust the Details: So moving on, we will adjust
the details of the font. I drew this whole
found without minding the very detailed parts. But still, I had in mind that I wanted to hold firm to
have the same look to it, the same mood, the same feeling. I think it's kind of in-between. When I draw the full fonts, I spend as much
time as I need on each character to make it look
cohesive, the whole font. But I don't spend time on the very small details because at the point where
I'm drawing each letter, I'm not sure as how the
whole font will look. So I make sure that I create the whole phone
first and then I can go in and change
the fine details. Let's see what we will do first. I will zoom in on the a, and I actually liked the a. So I can adjust the
size of my letters. If I tap the selection
tool and I can drag it, kind of just increasing
the size like this. Or if I wanted more
narrow like that. So let's just try out
and see what we want. I think that I want to
have a narrow font, so I will try to just
change my letters a little bit to make
them even more narrow. And if I want to, I can rotate them a bit. You can also adjust the single
strokes if you want to. Somehow you can zoom
in more than this. A little bit strange,
but maybe that's an update that will come
later on in this app. But here we have zoomed
in as much as we can. And if I select the letter, I can go in with
the eraser tool. When I have trimmed,
stroked, turned on. I can just tap the strokes
to trim them a bit. Or if you think that
it's easier to turn off the trim strokes
and maybe you want like your flat
look in the edges, then you can just erase the round parts of the
edges of your characters. So that looks pretty fun, I think so I will select
the whole letter. And as you can see now that
while I adjust these details, I might change the overall
look of the whole phone. And that's part of the
experimentation process for me. And the fun part is to kinda see what I can come up
with as I create my font. I don't have it perfectly
planned when I start out. That if you want
to can of course, have it perfectly planned out. So let's have a look
and see what we can do with the other letters. I'm not completely
sure yet that I want to have those flattened. I would just keep it around for now and I will move on
to the other letters. And when I adjust the details of each letter or character, I go in and either use
the pencil size ten. And I draw in the part that
looks a little bit strange. So that is one way of doing it. And you can also use
the eraser tool with a really small size and erase the parts that you
feel looks strange. It all depends on the
look you're after. If you want the sharp edge, you can use the eraser tool and if you want a smooth edge, you can use the pencil tool. I use the pencil tool,
the eraser tool, and then usually I select my whole letter and I
adjust it on the baseline. You can of course have your
letters jumping up and down. But for this font, I want them laying on the
baseline and I want them to go up to this cap height
line, something like that. And then I can see how
many dots are this letter. So maybe if I just
do it like two dots, then it will be easy to do the other letters like two dots. Let's try that out. So something like that. Looks pretty good. So moving on, I select the C and I adjusted so that
it's about two dots. Maybe I want to cut the
edges of that stroke. I will trim stroke and
the little bits in size. Let's see what I can do. I'm not sure if I'm happy
with the look of this letter, but I will keep it
like that for now. Then I move on to the d. Here I can probably draw in
some parts that are missing. I can erase some parts. I will speed up
this process again, but I am moving
through the font, the whole font, all
the characters, so that the overall look of my font looks like
I want it to be. Let's speed this up a bit and I will meet you again
when I'm finished. So now I have adjusted
all the details of the uppercase
characters of iPhones. And when I reached this stage, I usually have a look and
see how my font works. And you can do that by tapping the Export button over here
and type and showcase. What's really nice in
this app is that you have some pre-made
templates here. So these are really great to just have a
look at your font. See if you like it, see if you want to
change something. And it's a great
way of kinda get a feel for how your
whole font works. And I can see that
some other letters are a little bit thicker
than the other ones. So I might want to change that. If I look at the whole alphabet, he looks kinda good, but I might want to do
some detailed changes. So this is a great
way of just getting a feel for your font and see if you want
to change something. So now I continue
with the details. So my font and I continue
with the punctuation, the numbers, and the symbols. So I will again go through
this in a speeded up version because I think it's a
little bit boring to look at me in real time when
I change these details. Okay, so now I have went through the whole phone and
gone over the details, and I'm quite happy with
how the font looks. I will check one more
time and type showcase to see if I like the overall
feel of the font. And I do. It looks kinda wonky and
hand-drawn and yeah, I like how it looks. Now, the other
details that we can adjust is under
font settings here. Font self has kind of
an automatic kerning. Kerning is the space
between the letters. You could say. That's the letter spacing
and word spacing. So you can adjust the
letter spacing by sliding this up and down and adjust the
word spacing as well. Normally the word
spacing looks good as it was kind of over here, 200, I think it looks good. And letter spacing we
can play around with. Maybe we want the letters to be really spaced or
really, really close. I think for this type of font
that I have created here, that is more of a
condensed looking font. It looks quite good to have a smaller space
between the letters. So after I've adjusted
the font settings, I check the type
and showcase again and have a look again
and see that yes, I like this letter spacing more than the
one I had before. So I want to just tap it back. When I was in the showcase, I saw that I didn't
like my letter D, So I will just adjust
that and actually redraw it to another D
that I like better. I can't say exactly
why I didn't like it. It just was feeling
that it isn't that it didn't fit in
to the other letters. So just try letters out and see what you think
works well together. The more you practice,
the easier this will get. So let's try that again
and see the letter d. O there. Yeah, I like that one better. Okay, So this font is
starting to look really good. I think. Now I will head
back to the font, and I'm happy with this now. So in the next lesson, we will export the font so that we can use it for
all sorts of purposes.
10. Export and Install in Procreate: Okay, so now it's time to export our phones and we
can first name it. So let's tap the little
home symbol here. If I tap and hold, I can rename, showcase, export, duplicate and delete. So make sure that
you don't delete. And I tap rename. And here we can name our font. So when naming your font, name it to something that
suits the style of your phone. It's good to have a brand style. Our style of favor company is deliberate, playful, and fun. Just as my own design style. I have named my fonts
with playful names. And they are called salted
caramel chocolate chips. We'd had any bubbles
and chunky monkey. I think that I will name
this font t around me, Sue. And then I will tap, rename, name your font to something
that suits your brand style, especially if you are
selling your font. It can be really good
to think about overall, look at all of the design
assets that you sell and have a brand concept that you follow in all of the
assets that you create. But I will talk more about
this later on in class. But I have named
my font tiramisu. And you can either
export your font from inside of the font
file like this, or tap and hold and tap Export. You can save your font to your files, to Dropbox wherever. But for the purpose
of this class, I want to export it and
install it in Procreate. So I tap Export again, and I tap Procreate. And that will open up procreate. And here I actually have
installed my font in Procreate. So now we will move on
to the next lesson, where I will show you how to use this font to create some
presentation images. That is, you, first of all can use in this class to
share as a project. But I also wanted
to show you if you want to sell your fonts, some examples of how to show
your fonts to your customers so that they know what
type of font they will get if they buy it from, for example, create markets.
11. Create Presentation Images: Okay, so now we will create
some presentation images that you can use to show your font hearing
class first of all. And also if you want
to sell your fonts on, for example, Creative Market
or your own web shop. I will show you what to
think about when you create your presentation
images for that too. So first of all, I want to show you an example of our presentation
images that we use on Creative Market and in our web shops for our
favorite company forms. I please ask you not to copy our style because
this is our brand style. And we have worked to get
this style for many years. So please don't copy our style, but I want to show
you kinda thought behind our presentation images. And then you can use
that knowledge to create your own unique
presentation images and your own unique fonts if you
want to sell your fonts. So this is one of our fonts, chocolate chip, and we create
one kinda cover image, which is the first image
that you see when you tap into our fun and
into surgery salt. Then I have some
kind of image width, a little bit more text so
you can see how the texts work in the sentence and how
the letters work together. I have at least one
image that shows all of the characters and numbers, symbols and punctuation so
that you will know all of the characters and numbers and all of that that you get in
the sand when you buy it. And then I just create some other artwork that I
think looks good and nice. I put the font on an image because I think
that that works good too. This specific font here is
just a little tip about the Yukon in this font combined lowercase and uppercase
for a playful look. So you could have many more presentation images than this if you are
selling your phone. The more ways you can show
that you can use your font. I think it's better
for the customer. But at this point I didn't
know how many fonts we will sell because these
are our first font. So I didn't want to
spend too much time in creating these images. Because if I spend a lot of time and we don't
sell a lot of fonts, then there will be time
that isn't well spent. So this is how we create
presentation images. And now we will start to create presentation images for
the class projects. So we will create one
of the images with text on one of the images
with some characters. How to do that is to tap the plus sign and
to make it simple, I will use the same size as a useful presentation
images on Creative Market. So 1820 times 1214, very specific pixel number. So create that type of canvas
with RGB color profile. So let's just start with
adding our font and then we can choose
later on what color we once I will just
select a black color. And I will tap the
Actions panel, add and add text. I will tap the little
symbol to change the font. And I will look up the font
that I just installed, which is called tiramisu. And then maybe
increase the size. And here I can add text. I want to add all of the
characters, numbers, punctuation, and symbols
that I have in my phone. So in fonts, self split-screen
isn't supported yet. I guess. I do a screenshot and then I do the split screen
with my photo app. And I grabbed my image over
here and do a split screen. So this is just
to make sure that I have all of the letters, all other characters,
numbers, punctuation, and symbols that are
included in the font. And I want to make sure
that I have all of those in this example. Then I will just start
to type width uppercase. But as you can see, even if you don't use uppercase, it will be the uppercase
letter because we have only included uppercase
letters in this form. So let's type a, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, the whole alphabet. When I have done my
characters in one, I duplicate that
layer with the text, oops, and I drag it down
and I add the numbers. And under the numbers, I add the woops. The punctuation. This turned out to be
a little bit hard. So I will actually go in to
form self and I will copy this last line from after nine and all the way through
all symbols and copy. And then I will
paste it down here. What happened here? Okay, so text again
and then paste. Okay, great, so all
that we need to do now is checked so that we have all of these punctuation
and symbols included here. And it should be
correct. And it is. So then we can remove
the split screen and I will just turn
on magnetics and snapping with the selection
to adjust these two boxes. Maybe I don't want
to snapping that was a little bit
annoying and I will just drag it up and then I
can increase the size. Maybe I want it to be kind
of even Something like that. I think that looks good. And then I can select
both of these layers. And I can just increase
the size of that. And I actually want to make a smaller leading
between the rows, so something like that. And then the same with
the numbers and symbols. Whoops. Dragging up the leading. That looks good. Okay, Great. So this is all that
you need to do to present your font hearing class. You can choose to
have different colors and write different
things with your font. And we will do one more of
these presentation images. So select the first
one and duplicate. So now we can write
something with our phone. I will just make sure that I
place it in the center with the snapping and
magnetics turned on and then I can
write something. Let's write every artist
was first an amateur, which is one of the showcase
images in font cells. And I think that it's a nice
quote or whatever it is. So let's use that one. And to share these
class, you tap, select both of them and
you can share them as JPEG and save it to camera
roll or whatever you want and then upload them
as a project in class. So as I mentioned, if you want to create a presentation images
to sell your fonts on, for example, Creative Market. You can have a look
at what we do that cell phones on Creative Market
and how we present them. Some use mockups. I think that I want to use
more mockups later on, but I haven't had
time to do that. Let's just write
hand-drawn font, playful and see what we can get. We can have a look at this from the lava lamp and
the day dreamer, and have a look at some
different brands and see how are they using these
presentation images to show the font. So there's no right or wrong. It's a matter of how you
want to show you a font, how much time you have, and also what your font
will look good like. But at least I would
say three to five. Presentation images is a
minimum to show your phone, but you can also have
ten or even more. I think this is a
really good example of how to show your
font is cohesive. This, the colors
are really nice. You have the Zoom,
an information and a lot of information in
this presentation images. And a lot of examples
of how to use the font.
12. Selling on Creative Market: So after spending some time
with the details on my font, tiramisu, I decided to make it for sale in our
favor company shops. And I created these
cover images, which is similar to the ones that I showed
you previously. I do use a template and assist
them for our cover images. And I suggest that
you can do the same if you want to
have efficient workflow when uploading and
creating products for Creative Market
or other web shops. I do, however, again, please remind you not to copy our way of creating our
presentation images or creating our fonts are making the exact same fonts as me and the same
presentation images. If you are selling your font, if you just want to show
it as a product in class, you are free to create the
exact same font is me, and the exact same
presentation images as me for learning
purposes only. Okay, So with that said, if you have a shop
at Creative Market, this is how you
upload your font. So I won't show
you in this class how to create a shop
at greater market. And you also can sell your
font on your web shop, on your own website. We do that as well. But for Creative Market, I wanted to show you
how I upload a font. So this is our shop
Faber company, and we have the
fonts on the top. The latest products
are on the top. And then we have our
procreate brushes, bundles, mockups, take
stairs, and all of that. But for now, we are uploading a font to upload a new product. For me, I have a system where I, at this point copy the information from one font and I change a little bit in it, and I paste it into
my new product. I do this because first of all, I think that when
you buy a font, it's not from the
text that says here. That is not the reason
why you buy the font. You buy it, how it looks. So the presentation images
are the most important ones. And also where you
can try your font. I also don't want to
spend too much time on the information and creating unique texts for every
product that we upload. Because if we don't sell
that much of a new product, I don't want to have wasted time creating all of this
information about it. So for this type of product
is not that much to say. Actually, this is a font. This is the language support, the file type and what
is included in the salt. To add a new product, I tap, Add a new product. And here I get my upload page. So the first thing that I will
do is to upload the file. I choose my file on my iPad. Favorite company, tiramisu. And there I have my OTF file. Then I can drag or
click to upload the maybe I can do a split
screen that might be easier. I can drag all on
my cover images. I named them to 123 456. That way I know which order I wanted the presentation
images to be. Then I can just remove
the split-screen. And here I have all my
presentation images. The next thing that I do
is to add a product name. So the name of the
font is tiramisu. And I don't really know
if this is good or not, but I've added this line in-between and I wrote
a handwritten font. What you write here will
affect the search results. So it can be good to include
handwritten, hand-drawn, hand lettered, or the type
of font that you upload. You can even include
skinny, bold, then that type of keyword. But I think on Creative Market, it's nice to have a clean name. So I wouldn't
suggest you include too many keywords in the title. Then I add the
product description. And what I've done
is I've written a product description
that's really short. And then I copy that to the product
description over here. I probably want to
make this bold. So I follow the descriptions
to make it bold, italic, list item
or horizontal rule. I want to make this bold. I do that first. And then current
language support. I'll do that one boat to. Normally, I actually upload my fonts on my computer instead, it's just quicker for me. But to show you here in class, I do it on the iPad now. And the name of the
font is not cocoa chip. That's another font. Oops. The name of the font is Sue. And its font and a
hand-drawn style, but I would change this. It's a thin hoop,
snot uppercase. It's a thin, cute and personal font and hand-drawn
style. It's perfect. Add a personnel and playful
touch, two illustrations, greeting cards, packaging,
quotes and much more. Because I feel that
all of our farms are kind of in the same
style and they work for the same products that I might add more to that
information later on. Then I'm finished
with that part. And I can add the category, so I add fonts. And here you can
choose category. This is the categories
you could choose from. So for this, I won't say
that it's a display font. It's not a scrape. I will set it to Swift. That's the closest one. So normally I do different categories based
on how the font looks. A little bit sad that
there aren't a category that's called hand-drawn
or handwritten. But maybe that will come
later on on Creative Market. So at this moment, all of our phones are 12 a USD. And I just kept it
like that because they have taken me about the
same time to create, if I would have
created a font with many different language supports and maybe more
complicated characters, then I would increase
the price and I might even increase
the price later on. So you have a
suggested price range and it's from 11 to 17. I feel that this font, at this moment, it
only supports English. For me, 12 USD is a good
price for this type of font. I tap Add property
and its vector. And here is an important thing that you need to add
and that is tag words. These are keywords and you want to write
formed, of course, formed and maybe handwritten,
handwritten font. Hand writing, maybe
hand-drawn, hand lettered. Skinny, maybe skinny font. Thin, thin font, thin. Playful, cute. Yeah, all of the keywords
that you can come up with, that is your font. Usually I make sure
that I include handwritten, hand-drawn,
hand lettered, basically the keywords that I think that someone would type in if they would try to find
a font that looks like mine. That's it. And now we can see
that tiramisu, that file is over here. We have named it. We have added our images, we have set the price, and we have added the text. I think that it looks good. What I will do
next, If I'm ready, you can save all changes and
it will save it as a draft. But if I'm ready for it
and I think that I am, I will tap live over
here, save all changes. And this will add the font to our shop at Creative Market. If we tap close. Here, you can see
the font and it's ready for someone to buy
it from creating markets. So that's how you upload a
font to create a market. And I really suggest
that if you are creating a shop for digital
design assets and forms, It's really good to think
about your brand and to think how you want your
brand concept to be. Our brand concept is what
I think really cohesive. We have given our brand a lot of thought and
we think that all of our products Have a good
look for our brand. So basically the more
products we ate, the better. I think that our brand sticks together if
you were say so. What you want is that if someone would look
at your product, for example, the tiramisu
formed or the sugar shape font. They would think maybe this
is a Faber company products. That is what you want to do with digital design assets and all sorts of things that
you said in your brand. You want to keep it cohesive and you want your style to shine through so that people think of you when they see something
that looks like your style. I would say that if you
arrived at that point, you have created a unique
personal brand that is great at communicating
what it stands for. So I really recommend
that you take some time if you
are new to having an online shop for
digital design assets, take some time to think
through your brand. What do you want
it to stand for? Think of some keywords and make sure that you
do your own thing. I think that is the key
to be successful selling digital design assets
or all sorts of things online is that you have your brand and you
have your style, and you do your own thing. Okay. That was all there is to it. Now tiramisu is on Creative Market and
you can buy this font, use it for all
sorts of purposes. This is our font that is
included in this class. I'm very happy to be able to
offer it for you for free. You can download it, check out the lesson about
how to download the freebie. And you will be able
to download this font. They use it for personal
and commercial use.
13. Thank You: That's all for this class. Thank you so much for watching. I hope you enjoyed
this class and that you enjoyed learning
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