![]() ![]() You can also hit CMD+OPTION+F for built-in testing pairs. In order to do this, double-click on a letter and then type in various words to test them. Turns out that was wrong AND a huge time waster, and that is not what I'm about at. In the first version of this tutorial, I talked about exporting and testing your font over and over again to work on kerning. It's what makes your font have the extra polish that other fonts may not have, and really becomes the pivotal point for attention-to-detail that goes into designing your own font. Kerning. It's the part of the font design process where you specify the distance between specific letter pairs. Set your font’s kerning within Glyphs App ![]() When you're done, highlight all of your glyphs in the app (CMD+A) and change the LSB and RSB (left and right side bearing) in the bottom-left settings. Open and close each letter and symbol until you've copied and pasted each glyph from Illustrator. Move up all of your letters and their bounding boxes up 750px (by typing -750px in the y axis field) to make it easier to copy and paste into Glyphs App in the next step. Now each individual letter with its bounding box is on its own layer. With all of your letters selected, resize them to 1000x1000px. Select all of your items and then use Release To Layers (sequence) in the Layers window drop down. Use the align tool to move all of your letters to the top-left position (so each corner lines up at 0,0) Use the move and copy tool (CMD+SHIFT+M) and repeat tool (CMD+D) to make sure each of these boxes are precise. Repeat until your letters are positioned correctly.ĭraw a 100x100px box around each letter (no stroke or fill value). Move each letter to line up with the correct grid subdivisions. Sketching on graph paper is a great way to keep your letterforms organized.įor starters, it's a good rule of thumb to have 4 equal heights each for the ascender, x-height, and descender.ĭraw each letter carefully and re-draw letters and characters that you aren't happy with.Įach letter will be no more than 100px square, so each major block will be space for one letter. I recommend starting with a lettering style that you already use in your own illustrations or hand lettering projects. When I was trying to decide, I went for my go-to doodle-y hand-lettering style. Glyphs App (I used the free demo for my first font, and purchased Glyphs Mini after that)įinding the style of your font can be the hardest place to start. Sakura Pigma Graphic 1 Pen or a similar inking marker or pen ( my favorites) Here are the tools and software I recommend for the hand lettering part of your journey, as well as the digitizing process: ![]() I spent a whopping 9 hours on this first font from sketch to export, and since then it's taken me significantly less time with each new font. These often have a much heavier weight, to look similar to letterforms that have been painted with a brush.Now, I'm going to help YOU learn how to create your own font and save hours of research and speed bumps. The former is more traditional, and the latter mimic a more quickly written, informal style. They can roughly be separated into formal script fonts and casual script fonts. They have a flowing, connected style, and most characters adjoin another with a connecting stroke. Script fonts are a traditional typeface choice, referencing back to formally written styling in the 17th century. Some have connecting letter designs, and some don’t, but they all have the type of character you’d expect from a hand-written piece of calligraphy. Calligraphy FontsĬalligraphic script fonts aim to mimic the style of traditional calligraphy writing. Before we dive into the fonts themselves, let’s quickly outline the difference between them. ![]() Decorative Fonts Vintage & Unique Vattican Brush Font Script Indigo Font Sans Serif Serif Fonts Modern & Stylish Condensed Fonts Compact & Clear Salute Riches HandwrittenĮxplore Fonts What Are Script, Brush & Calligraphy Fonts?Īll these typefaces have similarities, but each of these styles is unique in a different way. ![]()
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