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Straight Line is an excellent display face for contemporary, eye-catching headings and sub-headings, and the fonts contain a full complement of Latin Extended-A characters. The typeface was inspired by a 1930s experimental alphabet by the British artist, Percy J Delf Smith. Choose Licence: £ 15.00.
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K-Type’s Banks & Miles fonts are inspired by the geometric monoline lettering created for the British Post Office in 1970 by London design company Banks & Miles, a project initiated and supervised by partner John Miles, and which included ‘Double Line’ and ‘Single Line’ alphabets. The new digital typeface is a reworking and extension ...
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- Layers
- Creating The Outlines
- Font Information
- Metrics Window For Spacing and Kerning
- Generating Font Files
- Further Reading
- Resources
- Kerning
The Outline layer is where glyphs are drawn. Scanned drawings or digital images of individual letters can be copied and pasted onto the Templatelayer beneath, and you can Auto Trace bitmaps to provide approximate vector points and beziers to push and pull into shape. Or you can simply draw over template shapes. The Guideslayer, below the Outline an...
Open up a character’s outline window to view the Tool Palette. Many characters can be created just by using Fontographer’s Rectangle and Oval tools. Copying and pasting becomes second nature to fontmakers. Select an n, for example, copy and paste it into the u glyph slot. Choose Element > Transform, then Rotate 180° to create the new letter, and nu...
As well as creating a new Fontographer file from scratch, much can be learned by opening up existing fonts and examining the settings and nomenclature used by other designers. There are also exciting possibilities for modifying the characters and creating new typefaces, it’s interesting to rework the outlines of existing fonts and to ponder on the ...
Fontographer’s Metrics > Auto Space does a pretty good job at spacing most characters, though you should check and fine tune spacing visually using the metrics window. Auto Space lets you set characters closer or farther apart using a sliding scale, and familiar words typed into the metrics window lets you see the result instantly. Choose Window > ...
Fontographer saves files in its own .fog format. When you are ready, fonts can be generated as cross-platform .ttf and .otf files which are most commonly used – File > Generate Font Files. Before generating, it’s a good idea to select all the glyphs in the font window and choose Element > Correct Path Direction; this ensures that counters (middle b...
Fontographer: Practical Font Design for Graphic Designers– David Bergsland Andy’s Quick Guide to Fontographer FontLab VI and Fontographer 5 – full and demo versions Designing Type– Karen Cheng A Typographic Workbook: A Primer to History, Techniques and Artistry– Kate Clair For more of K-Type’s favourite books, check out the Spines
Type Classifications Glossary of Type Terms(typographher.com) Graphemica Latin Extended-A Mac Keychart(typeco.com) Windows Keychart(typeco.com) Combo Keychart(typeco.com) Font Squirrel Webfont Generator Diacritics Polish Diacritics(Adam Twardoch) Fontographer
Jim Gallagher, the legendary ‘Fontmeister’, suggested these letter combinations as the most common problematic pairs: Av Aw Ay Ta Te To Tr Tu Tw Ty Ya Yo Wa We Wo we yo AC AT AV AW AY FA LT LV LW LY OA OV OW OY PA TA TO VA VO WA WO YA YO These are less frequently used pairs: A’ AC AG AO AQ AU BA BE BL BP BR BU BV BW BY CA CO CR DA DD DE DI DL DM DN...
2018年6月6日 · The ‘Post Office Double Line’ alphabet was created in 1970 from sketchbook ideas that John Miles had started working on the previous year, “I had been enjoying myself seeing how far I could push basic geometry in designing an inline alphabet and we decided to develop my original sketches”.
Block Capitals. Block Capitals is a square, geometric, small caps display face that avoids fashionable foibles and exudes the neutral, unpretentious functionality of time-honoured block lettering. The family has three widths (Narrow, Normal and Wide), and the Bold weights are loosely based on well-used squared nets – 3×5, 4×5 and 5×5.
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Oxford Street is a signage font that began as a redrawing of the capital letters used for street nameplates in the borough of Westminster in Central London. The nameplates were designed in 1967 by the Design Research Unit using custom lettering based on Adrian Frutiger’s Univers typeface, a curious combination of Univers 69 Bold Ultra ...
Four fonts are included: Pop Cubism Shaded contains the lines and dot tones for use in a single color. Pop Cubism Outline, Pop Cubism Halftone Underlay, and Pop Cubism Color Underlay are a Color Kit – three fonts for overlaying different colors of lines, dot tones, and background color. Choose Licence: £ 15.00. Add to cart.
