How to Make a Font - Font Design Full Process 

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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!

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!!

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.

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

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

That was amazing. Thank you so much!

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

New subscriber thank u for the tutorial.

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)

Thank you for the tutorial Garry, it's so helpful!! Keep up the great work!!!

Does it work for all languages, like RTL languages?

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

Gorgeous. Thanks for helping us (freshers) out.

This is what I've been waiting for!!

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!

Your Amazing Thankx for the information ...you awsome

This has been super helpful, thank you!

That was a great tutorial. Thanks!

Thank man for education us! Please make video on ngrx and rxjs

Thank you! Im just learning

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

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 for the tutorial! Very helpful indeed!!

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

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?

Thank you for showing this!

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?

Can this be done using pictures

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?

How to make commercial and versitile fonts family by myself?

Does it also work with the cs6 version?

Thank you so much!!!! This is great

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

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

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

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

thank you tutorial boss

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.

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

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.

this guy know a lots of stuff about design.

Fonts should be developed in such engineering programs as Rhinoceros, because there 3-4 levels curves are normally created and use T-splines.

2:21 oh hey its that tune rich brian sampled for history

15:12 gahdamn I thought I was being personally attacked

Jazz it up

Was it exported as an OTF file?

Is there free software that does that?

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

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

thnkz sir

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

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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?

muito bom

when they are not paying you for this, why do you advertise them instead of using a free alternative

If you know how to use illustrator, skip to this: 36:50

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

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.

anyone hear rich brian?

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You lost me on a little bit of money

I use figma how do I do it in figma