This book takes you step by step through the development of a new unilateral serif font. It starts with a brief type history. Then it goes through the development of the characters, the assembly of... More > composite glyphs, the addition of OpenType features, letterspacing, kerning, and exporting the finished font.< Less
This book takes you step by step through the development of a new unilateral serif font. It starts with a brief type history. Then it goes through the development of the characters, the assembly of... More > composite glyphs, the addition of OpenType features, letterspacing, kerning, and exporting the finished font.< Less
Why a 3rd edition?
The comment from Readable Web is what I’ve hoped to hear:
“If you’re looking for a brief, straightforward introduction to fonts, I recommend David... More > Bergsland’s Practical Font Design. Unlike a lot of books that make you feel like you’re seated in the back row of a crowded lecture hall, this one feels like a private tutorial." Richard Fink
One of the things that quickly became obvious was that I needed to combine the two parts into a whole. This calls for a radical rearrangement of the content to make it flow better. Many of the things I learned during the writing of Part Two require radical changes to the workflow described in Part One.< Less
This is part of the product of a University of Minnesota UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program) Project. It intends to elucidate the process of going from sketches to a vectored, usable... More > font. Much of this book focuses on how to use Fontographer 5.1 software, though this guide also gives information on sketching, the design process, helpful books, and testing your font.< Less
Font Flowers is an experiment in typography and information design.
Font Flowers combine all the letterforms of a font into a single shape. This abstracts the font so that formal comparisons between... More > fonts can be made from a new perspective. For more information, see the Font Flowers project page: http://www.mattgilbert.net/article/10/font-flowers< Less
Font Flowers is an experiment in typography and information design.
Font Flowers combine all the letterforms of a font into a single shape. This abstracts the font so that formal comparisons between... More > fonts can be made from a new perspective. For more information, see the Font Flowers project page: http://www.mattgilbert.net/article/10/font-flowers< Less
A rewritten, expanded edition updated to FontLab 5 giving a practical walk through the process of designing a font. This is not about artistic considerations, but the practicalities of putting a font... More > together.< Less
