I really enjoyed this. Seeing how someone else navigates creating a typeface is fascinating. In comparison, I tend to make letterforms from several sections, it was good to see how you made them from solid shapes. To have made this many characters in only a couple of hours is phenomenal. Amazing work, had to follow you on Instagram too
at 2:29 how did you go from circle to 'squircle' so quickly? you pulled all the anchors in different directions with one button press. is that a macro?
This is very helpful, thank you for this video Alex!! I'm in the process of creating my first typeface, on Glyphs and as I am watching I'm getting some tips and tricks to improve my typeface or my workflow. I'm curious: where are you from? And also, a kerning tutorial would be amazing, because I don’t fully understand how it works on Glyphs. I read on the subject and Glyphs suggests a script, but I have no idea how it words nor what it exactly does
Yes! But I think before talking about kerning, its important to start with spacing, and that leads to drawing... youknowwhatimean But I’ll find some time to do all of that :)
Fit Curve (on the panel on the right side). The shortcut is ctrl + opt + numerals (I’ve even remapped it to just opt + numerals because I use it quite a lot). It just equalizes the relative length of the handles
Illustrator is mainly used for drawing hence its name. Drawing letters I can see that if we are talking about just node control as there are programs that are better with nodes but drawing shapes is primarily it’s use. Perhaps I need more context as to why you said illustrator isn’t good for drawing shapes.
Shapes are made of nodes, why do you separate that? Drawing with illustrator is sort of like building a house with a hammer, sure you can but there are better ways. Check out Vector Scribe plugin for Ai - those kinds of tools exist in font design software natively and make life much easier. That plugin probably makes illustrator good for drawing too, but I haven’t tried it myself.
@@slobzheninov I’m not sure why you thought I separated nodes and shapes? Of course shapes have nodes. Whether it’s using a mouse or an art tablet you’re making nodes. Is illustrator the best, no (I agree with you there) but that also includes preference. Perhaps your issue with illustrator is that it isn’t for you because professionals still use it for their career. Character illustrations are still made from it. It’s still one of the top programs. Nobody has to like it but to deny it the way you did is odd is all.
Just stumbled across this today and it's funny to hear you say that x is your least favourite character to design because just yesterday with Twitter rebranding to X, I was explaining why the X they've used looks wrong and had the legend Erik Spiekermann comment that X was his least favourite character to design because of the widths of each leg and the optical compensation necessary to make it look right.
I really enjoyed this. Seeing how someone else navigates creating a typeface is fascinating. In comparison, I tend to make letterforms from several sections, it was good to see how you made them from solid shapes. To have made this many characters in only a couple of hours is phenomenal. Amazing work, had to follow you on Instagram too
Thank you!
best channel on TH-cam
Это мега круто! Спасибо, что показываешь и рассказываешь процесс.
at 2:29 how did you go from circle to 'squircle' so quickly? you pulled all the anchors in different directions with one button press. is that a macro?
It’s Fit Curve (on the right panel), with shortcuts ctrl + opt + numerals
@@slobzheninov thank you!
This is a great video. Thanks for uploading. I’d love to see more!
amazing video! it teaches so much about how to get started with making fonts
This is very helpful, thank you for this video Alex!! I'm in the process of creating my first typeface, on Glyphs and as I am watching I'm getting some tips and tricks to improve my typeface or my workflow. I'm curious: where are you from?
And also, a kerning tutorial would be amazing, because I don’t fully understand how it works on Glyphs. I read on the subject and Glyphs suggests a script, but I have no idea how it words nor what it exactly does
Probably Russia
Alex, do you still plan on making a video on kerning?
Yes! But I think before talking about kerning, its important to start with spacing, and that leads to drawing... youknowwhatimean
But I’ll find some time to do all of that :)
Hi, dear i edit one font but i face one issue, that is lower corners of some words like g, y, j etc. do skip automatically، any solution plz???
What software is this?
font design speedrun
Please make a course on fontlab
how to define weights measurements (in px)?
What do you mean? Fonts are made using units per M (UPM), which is relative to the size it is set in.
Thank you very much. And I try to desig a type face.
U r amazing bro, dont stop with yt channel
Hey how did you change the curvature handles (eg in the o) so quickly? Was that a shortcut? And if so what did it do?
Fit Curve (on the panel on the right side). The shortcut is ctrl + opt + numerals (I’ve even remapped it to just opt + numerals because I use it quite a lot). It just equalizes the relative length of the handles
@@slobzheninov Thank you!
Thank you.
can you create short video on "how to create color font in fontlab ? " There is no video on youtube
go to color and select the color u like!
Very insightful video, Thanks so much ✌🏼✌🏾✌🏿
Which software is that …?
Glyphs
which sotware is this?
Glyphs
Is there any good typefaces creating app I can use on Windows?
Probably FontLab! But overall you’ll probably find a need to switch to mac at some point
What do you really think and consider whlie drawing glyph by glyph?
Building a system, since all glyphs are related. So I’m trying to figure out whether the idea will or won’t work across the whole alphabet.
Это супер полезно! спасибо большое!!!
thanks a lot .. that was helpful and entertaining ..
What software do you use?
I think it's glyphs
yep, it is glyphs!
thank you for this very helpful video !
Please do a video about kearning
Xin chào, bạn dùng phần mềm nào vậy ?
I use Glyphs
@@slobzheninov thank you so much 🥰
Подскажите, что это за программа
Glyphs
If you had made an x using two diagonal strips, it would have been easier.
Getting optical compensations right takes most time anyway, so the starting point seems almost irrelevant to me :)
Let's name this Slobz2H.
galing naman paturo naman.
Спасибо. Теперь моя дорога к тайп дазайну стала яснее
Illustrator is mainly used for drawing hence its name. Drawing letters I can see that if we are talking about just node control as there are programs that are better with nodes but drawing shapes is primarily it’s use. Perhaps I need more context as to why you said illustrator isn’t good for drawing shapes.
Shapes are made of nodes, why do you separate that? Drawing with illustrator is sort of like building a house with a hammer, sure you can but there are better ways. Check out Vector Scribe plugin for Ai - those kinds of tools exist in font design software natively and make life much easier. That plugin probably makes illustrator good for drawing too, but I haven’t tried it myself.
@@slobzheninov I’m not sure why you thought I separated nodes and shapes? Of course shapes have nodes. Whether it’s using a mouse or an art tablet you’re making nodes. Is illustrator the best, no (I agree with you there) but that also includes preference. Perhaps your issue with illustrator is that it isn’t for you because professionals still use it for their career. Character illustrations are still made from it. It’s still one of the top programs. Nobody has to like it but to deny it the way you did is odd is all.
Just stumbled across this today and it's funny to hear you say that x is your least favourite character to design because just yesterday with Twitter rebranding to X, I was explaining why the X they've used looks wrong and had the legend Erik Spiekermann comment that X was his least favourite character to design because of the widths of each leg and the optical compensation necessary to make it look right.
Oh, even Spiekermann doesn’t like it? :D
My bet is that Musk expected Twitter’s new logo to be hated and debated to keep his name in the news.
Thank you.
he mentioned it is not a tutorial 3:53
@@chgl708 sorry typed by mistake.