today I'm going to show you guys the easiest way to make a custom font right now
in today's tutorial so let's waste no more time let's dive in today's video on
how to make your very own font the easiest way every single cheese day
here at Satori graphics is going to be typography Tuesday where I'm going to
bring you guys a video or tutorial based around typography so if you love all
things type and you want to learn more about the art of typography you know
where to come today I'm showing you the easiest way to make a font the actual
software to use and how to use it next week I'm going to show you guys how to
design the font I work itself I use an extension you can purchase flow
Illustrator or Photoshop called font self it's an extremely easy piece of
software to use to make your very own font and it's relatively inexpensive at
43 great British pounds as you can see there are various different options for
price plans when I suggest you the debilitated version as making a font
from a vector ensures it's going to remain crisp and clean throughout so how
do we actually use font self to make a fonts it's actually very easy and I'm
going to show you how to do that right now remember next week I'm going to show
you the design process for the font artwork itself once you've downloaded
the font self and you've installed it using the kili send to email address
needs head up to the extensions section illustrator and open up the software I
actually forgot to change my font to black instead of using white but now
that's been changed you will notice at the very top of font self there are
buttons - upper case lower case numbers and a thing called badge
firstly let's add some lowercase letters if you have exactly 26 letters you can
add them all at once into the relevant section just drag and drop them like so
if they are in order font self will place them into the
relevant category for each one letter you then can click the top left corner
of the letter to zoom in and focus on that letter itself this is where you can
adjust the kerning and the baseline of the letter which is something you will
need to spend a lot of time on throughout your font creation you can
either drag and slide here to adjust the kerning ie the space between each letter
or you can do it the manual way which is the way that I do and type in the values
themselves here at the very top section here this is where you can type in and
test to see how your font is looking in comparison to other letters checking to
see if the kerning is OK you can change how far you want to zoom in a zoom out
here what you want to do is to spend a lot of time to carefully test the
kerning of each letter next to another letter so for example with an A and a B
here I can see the kerning is not ideal so I'm going to go back to the B letter
and adjust the kerning values behind and in front of the letter like I said this
does take a lot of time but it is essential for a quality font you can
also add a letter at a time in the back section by selecting a letter from your
font and then clicking badge once added simply type in the letter
Orvis punctuation you just type in the penetration mark again you're going to
need to adjust the coding values for everything you upload into font self and
then test it thereafter
I've used various different font production programs and I find font self
the easiest simply because it's linked up to illustrator or Photoshop and it's
very simple to use I'm not sponsored by the way I just really love this program
lastly you want to export your file for use and that's also very straightforward
to do when you're ready just go up to exports
click it and then name your phone to be exported you then need to install your
font onto your font library or font book and again do more testing I've exported
my font for different times because I experimented and tested it within Adobe
Illustrator and other programs to see how it functioned when designing you in
font you can never do too much testing
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