How to Make a Font - Font Design Full Process

It's really helped. Thank you

please make one video how to create non english fonts like Kannada language font or any other Indian fonts

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Para alguien que usa AutoCAD ver este proceso "rápido" es desesperante

Can this be done using pictures

Great video so far! Didn't see it mentioned so wanted to share that round characters like O and C etc. Should extend past or "overshoot" the guides a smidge since they'll look a little smaller relative to the flat characters.

New subscriber thank u for the tutorial.

How to make commercial and versitile fonts family by myself?

"how to make a font" has NOTHING to do with how to export from one soft to another one
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I use figma how do I do it in figma

Why make a new font when Comic Sans already exist and is the perfect choice for anything?

You lost me on a little bit of money

Thank you for the video. Though I cringed when you made the O the same as the other letters - It's widely accepted that 'rounds' (O, G, Q, C) should overshoot the the cap height and baseline.

After that tutorial, I won't complain about the price of fonts that I sometimes buy...

Hello! What to do if the Fontself is ignoring guides? My letters are aligned to guidelines but the plugin ignores it and creates glyphs which are not aligned to the base line and I have to align them again in the plugin. I do something wrong?

That was amazing. Thank you so much!

What we use for Arabic fonts...?
Plz...!

What to use in order to create a bi-lingual fonts?

everyone: talking about fonts
me: OMG, JC - A BOMB!
JC: a bomb !

Hello! I am wanting to find an answer to a tech question. I want to create a font. I want this font to be a "smart" font that allows for selection of specific symbols based on surroundings. The general idea is that I want to make a cursive font that can connect well to letters preceding. But, for example, I want the first letter of every word to not have the lead-in tail that it would need if it was proceeding another letter. I want the text to recognize that there is a space before the letter and to present the correct symbol of the letter. Is this possible?

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That was a great tutorial. Thanks!

This has been super helpful, thank you!

Hello, first of all: great video! 😊 I‘m in the last semester of my graphic design studies and I want to create a whole font (including every letter + numbers), is this possible with Fontself?

Why didn't use the grid to have better view of thickness and sort of size

I loved this! I would like to make my own handwriting into a font, so this video was useful, thank you

Hey dude, thanks for the tutorial! Allow me to offer you a better way to do a few of the things you seemed to be hitting your head against during the video:

1) The O typically extends beyond the baseline and capline. It helps with visual alignment, even though it may not be mathematically so.
2) You can snap two anchor points together VERY easily by selecting the moving object with the Selection Tool, switching to the Direct Selection Tool, switching to Outline View (Ctrl/Cmd+Y), then grabbing the anchor point with the Direct Selection Tool and linking it up with whatever anchor/path you want it to snap to. Takes all the guesswork and jagged edges out of it.
3) You don't need to copy/paste in front when you're reflecting something. Just hit the copy button in the reflect dialogue box, save yourself a step.
4) You can drag a copy of a selected object by holding Alt while you drag it with the Selection Tool. No Ctrl/Cmd+C and Ctrl/Cmd+F step.
5) The plural for radius is "radii".
6) You can double-click the curve anchors to get options for that specific corner and adjust its radius on the fly.
7) The G, like the O, extend beyond the baseline and capline.
8) You can make cuts in a path with the Scissor tool (S on the keyboard) so you can keep your stroke a stroke. The Scissor tool will snap to lines, so you can still make a guide with the pen tool as desired.
9) You can change from which corner or side (or center) your shape will resize from when holding Alt by changing your anchor point next to the dimensions/coordinates section of the Properties panel (on the right where all your options are).
10) It's a good idea to keep copies of your "sizing" shapes (like with the white cutout) off your artboard, so it's visible. Each time you need it, make sure to Alt+drag another copy from the one outside the artboard. Helps you not forget to make a copy, and as Aaron Draplin says, "Vectors are free!"
11) On the same note, it's a good idea to keep stroke-only versions of your shapes (like with the B) off the artboard as well, so that if you need to go back a step you're not stuck doing a "good enough" job.
12) If you DO ever end up with jagged points when manipulating shapes, you can always use the Smooth tool to sort of knead it out. Just select the shape you want to work, and draw your curve over the jagged part a bunch of times until it disappears.
13) An easy way to center your shapes is to select your shape, hold Shift and select the bounding box it's sitting within, click the bounding box one more time to set it as the Key Object, and then use the Align panel to center it up. No guesswork, no cursor babying!

Hope these tips help you!

Once you make fonts can you sell them do you need to patten them?

Glyphr is free open source. can copy and paste from illustrator to it

Is there free software that does that?

I haven't seen anyone drag characters in from the layers pallet before... they just selet the outline of all the characters they want from the canvas and drag em down. Maybe that only works if all the characters are in a row and in order?

Was it exported as an OTF file?

I find this video great... really appreciate your time...hats off brother. thank you

instead ctrl+c - ctrl-f every time, just select object, press and hold alt then click and drag...it will duplicate object as you drag it. add shift to drag on a line! cheers!

Thank you for showing this!

this guy know a lots of stuff about design.

Do you make custom fonts for others? How much do you charge?

write down A-Z a-z 0-9 and all the full stop, comma, exclamtion mark etc. Take a clear photo from above. Bring into ai. Live trace. Tweak and then use these. 25 mins and ule have your own font

i use fontself. superb plugin. Made my grandmas handwriting into a typeable font. mine, my girlfriends.

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Thank you! Im just learning

anyone hear rich brian?

I can use this mothed at arabic font?!