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Learn Font Making 2.0
Welcome
Class Overview + Bonuses (6:28)
Create Your Lettering/Font Style
How to Choose a Font Style that Sells (4:49)
Materials Overview (4:19)
Preparing your Letters With and Without Guides (7:02)
Preparing your Letters using an iPad (4:19)
Prepared Characters Examples (4:11)
Scanning (for lettering created WITHOUT an iPad)
Scanning Options: With and Without a Scanner (3:53)
Increase Contrast in Photoshop (optional) (6:31)
Preparing your Letters for Script Font Creation
Image Trace Settings in Illustrator (9:04)
Traditional Cleaning Methods with a Mouse (9:44)
Cleaning Letters with an iPad (9:57)
Creating + Implementing Exit Stems (15:54)
Script Exit Stems Process (7:13)
Adding Ligatures and Alternate Characters (6:59)
Preparing your Letters for Import into Glyphs
Setting up the Illustrator File (1:22)
Filling out the Grid (10:24)
Locking Letters, Alignments + Layer Sequencing (9:57)
Creating your Font in Glyphs
Glyphs Mini Users Only: Watch this First (8:41)
Setting up your Glyphs File + Glyphs Overview (9:15)
How to Bring Letters into Glyphs (5:54)
Intro to Uppercase Letters in Glyphs (11:06)
Uppercase Letters in Glyphs Full Process (30:22)
Intro to Lowercase Letters in Glyphs (6:33)
Lowercase Letters in Glyphs Full Process (27:43)
Numbers and Punctuation (17:40)
Symbols and Diacritics (23:47)
Kerning
Intro to Kerning/Kerning Basics (4:38)
Kerning Groups, Part 1 (15:09)
Kerning Groups, Part 2 (16:25)
Font Features + Customizations
Ligatures: Standard vs. Discretionary (13:54)
Stylistic Alternates (4:30)
Contextual Alternates: End Forms (5:30)
Contextual Alternates: Initial Forms (14:45)
Other Font Family Styles: Overview (3:25)
Bonus Learning: Additional Customizations
Letters with Swashes (12:00)
Creating a Font with Multiple Weights (8:15)
PUA Encoding (4:12)
Testing your Font
Testing within Glyphs (12:11)
Export + Test with Other Programs/Font Book Check (10:50)
Saving + Exporting your Font
Exporting OTF, TTF + Web Fonts (8:25)
File Folder Structure for Selling (6:45)
BONUS MODULE: Selling your Font
Naming your Font (4:57)
Preview Images (9:23)
Using + Editing Mockup Files (5:04)
Font Licensing (9:35)
Places to Sell, Differences + Recommendations (15:42)
Becoming a Seller (5:30)
Pricing your Font (5:55)
Selling Strategies Anyone Can Use (11:23)
Selling Better: Adjustments + Considerations for Future Fonts (8:39)
Next Steps
Final Thoughts + Thank You (1:46)
Class Bonuses
Bonuses
How to Bring Letters into Glyphs
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