Creating Your First Font with Fontself Maker

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Free Online Course: Creating Your First Font with Fontself Maker provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for Less than 1 hour of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Creating Your First Font with Fontself Maker is taught by Nigel French.

Overview
  • Take the first step toward designing your very first font using Fontself Maker, an extension for Illustrator and Photoshop that allows you to quickly create OpenType fonts.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Design your own custom font
    1. Design Your Font
    • Create a hand-drawn font: Drawing characters
    • Create a hand-drawn font: Tracing characters
    • Create a hand-drawn font: Making a font
    • Create a geometric font: Creating characters based on a grid
    • Create a geometric font: Preparing characters for Fontself
    • Add a new font style to an existing font
    • Create an icon font
    • Create a color font
    • Create a picture font
    • Create ligatures and alternate characters
    Conclusion
    • Goodbye and next steps