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How to make a font with Hand Lettering Using Fontself and Adobe Illustrator - Font & Graphic Design

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About How to make a font with Hand Lettering Using Fontself and Adobe Illustrator - Font & Graphic Design

1 Intro How to make a font with Your Own Hand Lettering using Fontself and Adobe Illustrator Fon

2 A Few Things to Know

3 Download the Exercise Files

4 Download and Install Fontself Maker

5 Typography 101

6 Using Fontself's template and a modified template

7 Drawing your illustrations

8 Getting your images into digital format

9 Setting up your workspace

10 Vectorizing and cleaning up images

11 Arranging letters for Fontself

12 Importing Characters into Fontself

13 Adjusting Character Spacing

14 Adjusting Kerning

15 Saving and exporting the font

16 Playful typography adjustments

17 Project

What You Will Learn?

  • Hello, fellow graphic designers! Font making doesn’t have to be hard, or expensive - did you know you can make a font right WITHIN Illustrator?.
  • In this course, you’ll draw a font, then digitize it, bring it into Illustrator and clean it up...and then use Fontself Maker, an extension that is used within Illustrator to actually create a font file that you can install on any computer!.
  • You’ll learn how to:.
  • • Use a template to adjust your letters to ensure uniformity.
  • • Use Adobe Illustrator tools to make edits to your font.
  • • Use spacing and kerning features in the Fontself Maker extension.
  • • Install your new font...so you can use it in any application that supports fonts - Word, Powerpoint, Cricut Design Space, and of course Adobe products!.
  • By the end of the class, you’ll be ready to create a beautiful project to show off your new font!.
  • Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe in the United States and/or other countries..