Practical Font Design

Practical Font Design, available at $19.99, has an average rating of 3.55, with 26 lectures, based on 87 reviews, and has 595 subscribers.

You will learn about By the end of the course, you will have the knowledge to develop the skills to produce your first professional quality font. You will set all the font metrics You will develop a special glyph used to keep the font consistent You will design the caps, lowercase, numbers, and accents You will add the accents characters You will produce the rest of the characters in a 256 character font You will add OpenType feature sets for small caps, oldstyle figures, lining figures, small cap figures and more You will professionally letterspace the font You will kern the font You will generate the font for your use and for sale (if you desire) This course is ideal for individuals who are The course is developed for graphic designers and typographers who are experienced in producing professional typography by using professional software like Adobe's Creative Cloud (or Suite) and/or QuarkXpress It is particularly useful for The course is developed for graphic designers and typographers who are experienced in producing professional typography by using professional software like Adobe's Creative Cloud (or Suite) and/or QuarkXpress.

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Summary

Title: Practical Font Design

Price: $19.99

Average Rating: 3.55

Number of Lectures: 26

Number of Published Lectures: 26

Number of Curriculum Items: 26

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 26

Original Price: $39.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

By the end of the course, you will have the knowledge to develop the skills to produce your first professional quality font.
You will set all the font metrics
You will develop a special glyph used to keep the font consistent
You will design the caps, lowercase, numbers, and accents
You will add the accents characters
You will produce the rest of the characters in a 256 character font
You will add OpenType feature sets for small caps, oldstyle figures, lining figures, small cap figures and more
You will professionally letterspace the font
You will kern the font
You will generate the font for your use and for sale (if you desire)

Who Should Attend

The course is developed for graphic designers and typographers who are experienced in producing professional typography by using professional software like Adobe's Creative Cloud (or Suite) and/or QuarkXpress

Target Audiences

The course is developed for graphic designers and typographers who are experienced in producing professional typography by using professional software like Adobe's Creative Cloud (or Suite) and/or QuarkXpress

This course will introduce you to the basics of font design using the leading software, FontLab Studio 5.

This is not a design class, but a production class. This is a practical method shared by a font designer with 35 years experience in typography and font design. Included is a sample font to get you started, discussions of concepts, and many practical demonstrations of the process of creating a font.

If you have been wanting to design your own font, this course will give you a basic production procedure you can build into a workflow that fits your working style.

The course materials will serve as a visual reference to complement the content of David's popular book, Practical Font Design Third Edition Plus. A downloadable PDF copy of the book is included with the course, plus a sample font you can use to start your new fonts. He will show you how to use the sample font.

You can complete the course in a week or two, but the production of your first font will take several months up to nearly a year to complete.

The course materials will remain a reference as you progress in your craft of font design.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: The basic tools of this course, plus an intro to the font design process

Lecture 1: "Practical Font Design With FontLab 5" the book which resulted in this course

Lecture 2: Welcome!

Lecture 3: Terminology of Type Metrics

Lecture 4: A ten-step design procedure to efficiently build your font

Lecture 5: Setting up your font and adding a mask to generate your character slots

Lecture 6: The basics of letterspacing

Lecture 7: The letterspacing tables

Lecture 8: Drawing tools

Lecture 9: The sample font

Chapter 2: Drawing the font with spacing

Lecture 1: Adding the measurement pieces glyph

Lecture 2: Drawing the cap I

Lecture 3: Drawing the Cap O

Lecture 4: Drawing the lower l, i, & h, plus the period

Lecture 5: Exercises you should be doing now…

Lecture 6: Finishing the period and accents,then doing the n & m

Lecture 7: Drawing the B, P, & R

Lecture 8: Drawing the b, d, p, & q

Chapter 3: Letterspacing, adding characters, OpenType features, and kerning

Lecture 1: Checking the Letterspacing

Lecture 2: Generating the composite glyphs or accented characters

Lecture 3: Where you should be now

Lecture 4: What is Opentype?

Lecture 5: Adding OpenType features

Lecture 6: Producing the small cap glyphs

Lecture 7: Some basic kerning information

Lecture 8: Kerning your font, a demo

Lecture 9: Generating your font

Instructors

David Bergsland
Author, font designer, & publisher at The Skilled Workman

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 5 votes
2 stars: 3 votes
3 stars: 7 votes
4 stars: 22 votes
5 stars: 50 votes

Frequently Asked Questions

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You can view and review the lecture materials indefinitely, like an on-demand channel.

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