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Learn Font Making
Welcome
Class Overview + Bonuses (6:17)
Create Your Lettering/Font Style
How to Choose a Font Style that Sells (5:17)
Materials Overview (4:19)
Preparing your Letters With and Without Guides (7:02)
Preparing your Letters using an iPad (4:19)
Prepared Characters Examples (3:18)
Scanning + Vectorizing
Scanning Options: With and Without a Scanner (3:53)
Increase Contrast in Photoshop (optional) (6:31)
Image Trace Settings in Illustrator (8:09)
Preparing your Letters for Script Font Creation
Traditional Cleaning Methods with a Mouse (9:44)
Cleaning Letters with an iPad (6:15)
Creating + Implementing your 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 (10:00)
Creating your Font in Glyphs
Setting up your Glyphs File + Glyphs Overview (8:50)
How to Bring Letters into Glyphs (9:12)
Intro to Uppercase Letters in Glyphs (13:00)
Uppercase Letters in Glyphs Full Process (31:52)
Intro to Lowercase Letters in Glyphs (6:30)
Lowercase Letters in Glyphs Full Process (23:55)
Numbers and Punctuation (16:32)
Symbols and Diacritics (20:38)
Font Features + Customizations
Ligatures: Standard vs. Discretionary (12:26)
Stylistic Alternates (5:52)
Contextual Alternates: End Forms (6:36)
Contextual Alternates: Initial Forms (14:21)
Other Font Family Styles: Overview (3:17)
Bonus Learning: Advanced Customizations
Creating a Font with Multiple Weights (6:30)
PUA Encoding (3:48)
Testing your Font
Testing within Glyphs (6:21)
Export + Test with Other Programs/Font Book Check (11:35)
Testing with Word (4:20)
Saving + Exporting your Font
Exporting OTF, TTF + Web Fonts (5:55)
Exporting with Glyphs Mini (3:44)
File Folder Structure for Selling (6:38)
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)
Font Bundles: How they Work + Pros and Cons (6:57)
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 (1:45)
Class Bonuses
Bonuses
Exporting OTF, TTF + Web Fonts
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