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Description
Creating Basic Fonts with FontForge
In this course, James Street shows you how to create basic fonts using the world's most powerful free and open source Unix-based font editor: FontForge. This course is designed from the ground up to be an entry point into Font Design, providing background design information for anyone wishing to take up the practice. James provides instruction on font anatomy, characteristics, and general design tips as well as a beginner friendly introduction to FontForge. The interface, workflow, and tools of FontForge are covered to help make sense of the mysterious art of font creation. The course leverages FontForge and related tools in conjunction with three different methods that can be used to create consistent and reliable fonts. The course also covers potential options for installing this powerful Unix-based tool on Mac and Windows systems. To begin learning today, simply click on the movie links! |
01 About the Course
0101 Introduction to Course
0102 Target Audience
0103 Course Overview
02 About FontForge
0201 About FontForge
0202 Font Formats & Encoding Types
0203 Other Tools
03 Font Basics
0301 Introduction
0302 Typeface Basics
0303 Anatomy pt. 1
0304 Anatomy pt. 2
0305 Font Characteristics pt. 1
0306 Font Characteristics pt. 2
04 Workflows
0401 Overview
0402 Parts
0403 Outlined Path
0404 Hybrid
0405 Decisions
05 Installing Your Toolset
0501 Introduction
0502 Install on Ubuntu
0503 Mac Options
0504 Windows Options
0505 Virtualization
0506 Run a LiveCD
06 Interface Fundamentals
0601 Introduction
0602 Opening Existing Fonts
0603 Font View
0604 Outline Window
0605 Metrics Window
0606 Components of the Glyph pt. 1
0607 Components of the Glyph pt. 2
0608 Components of the Glyph pt. 3
0609 Extrema
0610 Tools pt. 1
0611 Tools pt. 2
0612 Tools pt. 3
0613 Tools pt. 4
0614 Tools pt. 5
0615 Saving
0616 Consistency
07 How to Create a Font: Parts
0701 Getting Started
0702 Guides
0703 Vertical Stem
0704 The Shoulder pt. 1
0705 The Shoulder pt. 2
0706 Saving Components
0707 Similar Glyphs
0708 Bowl Glyphs pt. 1
0709 Bowl Glyphs pt. 2
0710 Mixed Bowl & Stem
0711 Dots
0712 Crossbars
0713 Diagonals pt. 1
0714 Diagonals pt. 2
0715 Diagonals pt. 3
0716 The Final Letter: S
0717 Conclusion
08 How to Create a Font: Outlined Paths
0801 Introduction
0802 Laying Down the Paths pt. 1
0803 Laying Down the Paths pt. 2
0804 Laying Down the Paths pt. 3
0805 Expanded Stroke Options pt. 1
0806 Expanded Stroke Options pt. 2
0807 Expanded Stroke Tweaking
0808 Modification
0809 Conclusion
09 How to Create a Font: Hybrid
0901 Introduction
0902 Cleaning Up the Scanned Image pt. 1
0903 Cleaning Up the Scanned Image pt. 2
0904 To Autotrace or Not To Autotrace?
0905 Manual Tracing
0906 Inkscape pt. 1
0907 Inkscape pt. 2
10 Refining & Generating Fonts
1001 Introduction
1002 Validating Fonts pt. 1
1003 Validating Fonts pt. 2
1004 Advance Width pt. 1
1005 Advance Width pt. 2
1006 Lookups & Kerning
1007 Creating Lookups & Kerning Pairs
1008 Creating & Modifying Bitmap Strikes
1009 Generating Fonts
11 Review & Wrap-up
1101 Summary
1102 Challenge!
12 Credits
1201 About the Author
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