Overview
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Get up and running with Fontself Maker, an extension for Illustrator and Photoshop that allows you to quickly create your own unique fonts.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome to Typocracy
- Acquire and install Fontself
- Essential typography terms
- Understanding the baseline
- A quick start in Illustrator
- A quick start in Photoshop
- Essential knowledge
- Compound paths and shapes
- Optimizing artwork
- Setting metrics with guides
- Artwork preparation and font creation
- Deleting and replacing glyphs
- Creating color fonts
- Using Live Paint to create color fonts
- Creating bitmap fonts in Photoshop
- Removing white backgrounds
- Using the Guides2Layers.jsx script
- Creating vector fonts in Photoshop
- Adjusting glyph sizes
- Spacing and kerning
- Creating alternates
- Accents
- Ligatures
- Saving your font
- Template files
