Introduction
Welcome to Typocracy
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Acquire and install Fontself
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Essential typography terms
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Understanding the baseline
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A quick start in Illustrator
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A quick start in Photoshop
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1. Key Illustrator Skills
Essential knowledge
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Compound paths and shapes
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Optimizing artwork
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2. Creating Fonts in Illustrator
Setting metrics with guides
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Artwork preparation and font creation
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Deleting and replacing glyphs
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Creating color fonts
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Using Live Paint to create color fonts
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3. Creating Fonts in Photoshop
Creating bitmap fonts in Photoshop
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Removing white backgrounds
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Using the Guides2Layers.jsx script
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Creating vector fonts in Photoshop
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4. Refining Your Font
Adjusting glyph sizes
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Spacing and kerning
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Creating alternates
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Accents
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Ligatures
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Saving your font
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Conclusion
Template files
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Ex_Files_Creating_Fonts.zip
(12.6 MB)