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Overall really useful tutorial on how to use fontself, I love it. But designing a font/typeface isn't just creating some circles and squares, you need to know visual compensation as well. For example, you shouldn't make all strokes even, because visually the vertical stroke will look thicker. The horizontal stroke should always be a bit thinner to balance it out.
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!
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.
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.
Gary, Gary, Gary, what would I do with out you? 😂 I should've known my bro got the hookup for making fonts too! (No lie, got excited to see one of my fave youtubers had a vid for the Q&A I was looking for lol)
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!
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?
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?
I designed a sci-fi alien font and saved all of the individual letters, numbers and symbols as PNGs. Will this plug-in allow me to simply import the images into the project and overlay them on to the key bindings I want, and then I can process it from there?
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?
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
Let me ask before I purchase: I am a hebrew speaker, my language is RTL, does it support Hebrew and RTL in general? I would really love to have this software.
The UI and UX of this app is just amazing. You can even move letters to set baseline but also do spacing per letter. It's just insane how well his is made. It's a abit sluggish on some older comps because they chose to stuff it with animations. Also don't like that always visible chat bubble
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?
If you really want to go into Type-Design, you should really use the right tools. This Illustrator Plugin in more or less just a hack, not real typedesign. Many people are using Illustrator for the first sketches, wich is totally okay. If you are a Mac user, consider using »Glyphs App« and as a Windows user you could stick to »Font Lab«.
This never worked for me and I'm a Windows user. The team rarely replies to my messages at the time for support. All I want to do is use my hand drawn fonts for my projects.
@@LizzyLoveOddballArt Because that's how their affiliate system is setup. Every Fontself user receives an automatic email from ReferralCandy that provides a custom URL, evidently based on your name. ;) It's a great way to gain exposure and offer your users an incentive to promote your product (affiliate marketing).
@@LizzyLoveOddballArt The incentive is monetary, which is an added bonus outside of wanting to share with others software that you like. There's nothing wrong with making money if you refer someone to a company and they join. It's the company's way of saying "thanks" for the new customer.
Enjoy the tut and want to try to make your own font? Get 10% off Fontself if you use this coupon:
fontself.refr.cc/garysimon
Also, check out the FULL process timelapse video where I complete this font: th-cam.com/video/0rz7ieXhXmU/w-d-xo.html
Overall really useful tutorial on how to use fontself, I love it. But designing a font/typeface isn't just creating some circles and squares, you need to know visual compensation as well. For example, you shouldn't make all strokes even, because visually the vertical stroke will look thicker. The horizontal stroke should always be a bit thinner to balance it out.
So where from to find a video that describes all secrets of font making?
Read a book there is no video
exactly what I thought when I was looking at the B :)
thicker horizontals ae superior in many instances
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!
scissor is C, S is the scale tool
Thank you for tip 13
2:31 The mall music is such an awesome way of marking a commercial part of a video that I almost want to buy just because I admire this edit.
Dude seriously...you are doing some great job here...big fan...such quality content for free..so much helpful for beginners..thanks a lot man!!
Thanks for the comment, you're welcome!
i use fontself. superb plugin. Made my grandmas handwriting into a typeable font. mine, my girlfriends.
This is what I've been waiting for!!
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.
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.
Gary, Gary, Gary, what would I do with out you? 😂 I should've known my bro got the hookup for making fonts too! (No lie, got excited to see one of my fave youtubers had a vid for the Q&A I was looking for lol)
I loved this! I would like to make my own handwriting into a font, so this video was useful, thank you
I’m trying to annoy people in comment sections by just randomly making a letter anything
That was amazing. Thank you so much!
Thank you for the tutorial Garry, it's so helpful!! Keep up the great work!!!
I find this video great... really appreciate your time...hats off brother. thank you
This has been super helpful, thank you!
New subscriber thank u for the tutorial.
That was a great tutorial. Thanks!
Gorgeous. Thanks for helping us (freshers) out.
everyone: talking about fonts
me: OMG, JC - A BOMB!
JC: a bomb !
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!
Does it work for all languages, like RTL languages?
Thank you for the tutorial! Very helpful indeed!!
What we use for Arabic fonts...?
Plz...!
Your Amazing Thankx for the information ...you awsome
Thank you for showing this!
really nice tutorial clear and extremely useful.
hoping to see all the letter you showed us how to create but i know that would be too long for us!XD
It's really helped. Thank you
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?
Once you make fonts can you sell them do you need to patten them?
please make one video how to create non english fonts like Kannada language font or any other Indian fonts
Thank you! Im just learning
Does it also work with the cs6 version?
How to make commercial and versitile fonts family by myself?
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?
Can this be done using pictures
I designed a sci-fi alien font and saved all of the individual letters, numbers and symbols as PNGs. Will this plug-in allow me to simply import the images into the project and overlay them on to the key bindings I want, and then I can process it from there?
If you know how to use illustrator, skip to this: 36:50
What to use in order to create a bi-lingual fonts?
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?
Thank you so much!!!! This is great
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
Lmao which ai huh
@@em4392 Adobe Illustrator cc2019
15:12 gahdamn I thought I was being personally attacked
Hahaha I came looking for this comment!
Was it exported as an OTF file?
Thank man for education us! Please make video on ngrx and rxjs
That has been on the todo list!
this guy know a lots of stuff about design.
Is there free software that does that?
2:21 oh hey its that tune rich brian sampled for history
if you could share the name that'd be stunning
Glyphr is free open source. can copy and paste from illustrator to it
After that tutorial, I won't complain about the price of fonts that I sometimes buy...
Let me ask before I purchase: I am a hebrew speaker, my language is RTL, does it support Hebrew and RTL in general? I would really love to have this software.
Fonts should be developed in such engineering programs as Rhinoceros, because there 3-4 levels curves are normally created and use T-splines.
"You know nothing, John Snow."
Why didn't use the grid to have better view of thickness and sort of size
The UI and UX of this app is just amazing. You can even move letters to set baseline but also do spacing per letter. It's just insane how well his is made. It's a abit sluggish on some older comps because they chose to stuff it with animations. Also don't like that always visible chat bubble
thank you tutorial boss
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?
If you really want to go into Type-Design, you should really use the right tools. This Illustrator Plugin in more or less just a hack, not real typedesign. Many people are using Illustrator for the first sketches, wich is totally okay. If you are a Mac user, consider using »Glyphs App« and as a Windows user you could stick to »Font Lab«.
Felix Tesche Thank you so much!
This never worked for me and I'm a Windows user. The team rarely replies to my messages at the time for support. All I want to do is use my hand drawn fonts for my projects.
Jazz it up
Para alguien que usa AutoCAD ver este proceso "rápido" es desesperante
when they are not paying you for this, why do you advertise them instead of using a free alternative
@@DesignCourse if they are not paying you for this why does your affiliate link have your name in it? just curious lol
@@LizzyLoveOddballArt Because that's how their affiliate system is setup. Every Fontself user receives an automatic email from ReferralCandy that provides a custom URL, evidently based on your name. ;) It's a great way to gain exposure and offer your users an incentive to promote your product (affiliate marketing).
@@DesignCourse thanks for replying. I'm curious what the incentive is if not monetary? If u dont mind me asking :)
@@LizzyLoveOddballArt The incentive is monetary, which is an added bonus outside of wanting to share with others software that you like. There's nothing wrong with making money if you refer someone to a company and they join. It's the company's way of saying "thanks" for the new customer.
thnkz sir
anyone hear rich brian?
it is actually sampled from Bossa Nova Muzak - Elevator
Why make a new font when Comic Sans already exist and is the perfect choice for anything?
😍🤟🔥
muito bom
as If I am going to spend $70 bucks to use a font I used. Can you please show us how to export it for free so I can use what I have made.
I dont get it, you bought the software and its telling you to pay in order to export your work?
1k
You lost me on a little bit of money