Hi, this is Anne with Graphic Design How To, and today I'm going to show you
how to make a font family. So something with bold and italics or something like that
in Fontself Maker and Adobe Illustrator. All right, let's get started.
Now first, before we get too far in, I want to let you know that Fontself Maker is not free. It's an
extension that you can buy for Adobe Illustrator, and it costs about $40, but I think it's so easy
to use, that it's totally worth it. And don't forget, you can always sell fonts, and recoup
your money that way. Anyway, I do have a referral code for that to get 10% off. And when you use
that code, I also get a little bit of money. So we both win. Anyway, on to the tutorial. Ok,
I'm here in Adobe Illustrator, and I'm just going to go to Create new. I'll come up here to Print,
and then I'll choose Letter, and we'll Create. Now if you don't know how to use Fontself in general,
I actually have another video for that, and that'll be on your screen above. So I'm going
to paste a lowercase alphabet, uppercase, numbers and a few symbols. This is actually not my font.
It's Montserrat because I didn't want to have to create a whole font just for this tutorial. So
basically, what I did is I typed out all these letters in Montserrat. Then I created outlines,
and I ungrouped them. Each letter needs to be its own group or a compound path like these are,
and you need to have everything in one line just like this. And of course, you'll already need to
have Fontself installed. That's also in my other video. You can check it out if you don't know how
to do that. So this is Montserrat Regular. This is Montserrat Italic, and I want them to be in
the same font family. So I'm going to come up here to Window>Extensions and>Fontself Maker,
and I'll create a New Font. So the first step is to take your lowercase ones, and just drop them
on here and then hover over LowercaseAlphabet. If you have all the letters in the right order,
they'll automatically be named correctly. So this looks good. I'll take my uppercase ones,
and drop those on. Now if this isn't working for you, it might be because like maybe your
lowercase i is actually two pieces instead of one, it's not grouped or it's not a compound path.
But this went through ok for me. Now I'll take my zero through nine numbers,
drop them on and hover over the zero through nine. And it should name all those correctly...looks
like it did. And then the symbols. These will have to go down here in any character.
And when you have symbols like this, you have to actually just go in and type them in.
So I will type dollar sign and percent, and they actually reorder as soon as you
hit tab to get to the next one. So we have our entire regular font installed.
So I'm going to go ahead and save this. And I'm going to call it Montsy. And I'll say OK,
and then it's going to ask us where we want to save that. I'll just put it on my desktop.
So after you have your regular font installed, you can add a style. So we'll click on New,
and then New Style instead of New Font. And now we can choose what type we want.
I'm going to go with Italic, but you can also choose Other if you want to name it whatever
you want. So I'll choose Italic. And we'll say OK. Now I'll go through the same process
with these letters and numbers. And I'll just speed this up so you don't
have to sit through it. It's the same exact process as before. Ok, and we'll save this.
When we go to save, it'll automatically add italic to the end of the same font name, we chose before.
So this looks good. I'm going to save this. And now I'll come down here to Open Saved Font. And
now I'll go out on my desktop, and I'm just going to install both of these fonts. So I'll select
both and then hit CMD O. You can also double click on them to install. So I'll install this.
And now let's test it. So I'll go back to Illustrator. I'll get out of the extension,
and then I'm just going to type some words. I'll make those a little bigger. And then in
my Character panel right up here, I'm going to type in the name of the font that I just made.
And now you can see there's a little drop down. We can do Regular or Italic here. So that's how
to make a font family with Fontself Maker. Now if you wanted to add bold or something else to this,
maybe some glyphs, maybe some swashes or something like that, you can get back into Fontself Maker
and just go ahead and do New and then New Style and add that one. And I don't know the limit on
how many styles you can have under one family, but usually you don't have that many maybe six
or seven. Ok and that's it. All right, if you liked this video and you want to see more videos
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