#GLYPHS MINI HOW TO#
Micro Typography: How To Space And Kern Punctuation Marks And Other SymbolsĬontextual Alternets: /news/article/opentype-at-work-contextual-alternates Text for Proofing Fonts by Jonathan Hoefler TypeCooker: Sketching with double pencil: /94459265 Read: Nina Stössinger, Daily Typesketch:
Great visual explainations: Sketching Techniques _ _ _ĭesigning: Asterisks, crosses, at-marks, copyright symbols Stroke Opitics: / eyeballing-iv-the-stroke-optics Read: Type Mechanics, Tobias Frere-Jones part 1 | part 2 Working with Paths (he moves fast): /43552747Ĭompare Variations of the same letter using layers: /23885201Need more? (let me know if you need access) downloaded some for you Smooth Curves : /quick-tips-two-methods-for-smooth-curves Read: /tutorials/drawing-good-pathsĭrawing Letterforms: 3_3_DrawingLetterforms.mp4 We are going to use Glyphs it is an industry sandard, it is intutitive and it has many online resources for you when you (we) get stuck. There are other font editing programs such as font lab and robo font. All tools are optimized for a type design workflow as natural, quick, and intuitive as possible. Its main principle is that you can edit glyphs in a word context. It is primarily a tool for designing and producing newfonts. Glyphs is a (software) tool for creating opent type fonts. Thanks again! This is going to be addicting.:: syllabus :: overview :: resources :: glyphs help and tips :: class google driveĮmail: Editing Software: Create : Produce : Release I'm still not finished tweaking it quite yet, but I love that it made creating these prints so much quicker and consistent! Here is the font in use for my girls' bathroom. I went back into Illustrator and aligned everything by centering to save myself time once pasting into Glyphs Mini. I realized I must have either missed a step or ungrouped something because my letters weren't in line with the bounding boxes. I simply cut those letters with the scissors tool and mirrored them so it still remained hand-drawn looking. There were some letters (like the M and W) that I wanted to be more symmetrical. I never even thought about it like that before!Īfter I cleaned it up in Photoshop, I went into Illustrator to trace and smooth. I initially started with outlines but then watched the videos thoroughly where it was explained how to start with one letter and use it as a guide for other letters.
I have graph paper on a clipboard at all times, so that's what I used to sketch. So I used one of my chunky, free-form styles as inspiration to complete this font.
I really just wanted to create my own prints for my kids' bathroom without having to hand letter everything. Here's my first font, I was able to complete it in an afternoon (with three kids that is a huge bonus!): I started hand-lettering as a kid and haven't stopped since! Thanks so much for an easy-to-follow process. This was so fun! I've been wanting to make my own fonts for a long time.
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