In 2018 Chris Campe and I teamed up and together we wrote “Making Fonts!”. 🙀
It took us almost a year to complete this comprehensive guide to type design & font production.
We were driven by the idea of giving you an easy to understand yet professional step by step instruction on how to make your own first typeface. From the process of vectorizing your analog sketches to bringing them to the font editor Glyphs, where we show you how to do spacing and kerning as well as adding accented characters and symbols to your font. And of course there is a whole chapter dedicated to OpenType features! 🤓
It took us almost a year to complete this comprehensive guide to type design & font production.
We were driven by the idea of giving you an easy to understand yet professional step by step instruction on how to make your own first typeface. From the process of vectorizing your analog sketches to bringing them to the font editor Glyphs, where we show you how to do spacing and kerning as well as adding accented characters and symbols to your font. And of course there is a whole chapter dedicated to OpenType features! 🤓
The German book “Making Fonts!” is available at Verlag Hermann Schmidt.
The English version “Designing Fonts” is available at Thames & Hudson.
