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FONT DESIGN - Coggle Diagram
FONT DESIGN
ILLUSTRATOR
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PREF: - GUIDES and GRID- Lines, Lt Gray, Lines GRIDLINE every 100px SUBDIV: 4 √√
PASTE Letter in each square, Align tops,
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TRANSFORM: w: 100, no stroke, x,y 0,0 THEN APPLE + SHIFT + M for MOVE panel
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ALIGN so all on top of each other - LAFT and VERT TOP- LAYERS, RELEASE TO LAYERS- SEQUENCE- might have to group each letter with box so letters stay in center of box
TRANSFORM- MAKE all 1,000 x 1,000 px
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GLYPHS MINI
⌨️ KEYBOARD SETTINGS: Apple pref- Mission control- turn off "Move left a space" and "Move right a Space"
- so you can use shortcut: APPLE + ALT +SHIFT + <- OR -> to adjust kearning 10 instead of 1
FONT INFO: UNits per em: 1,000 Ascender: 750 Cap Heigh: 500 X Height: 250, Descender: -250....Name Font and add your name
GO TO FONT VIEW- select all and change width to be 1,000 x 1,000 for all in the "H" box bottom left
IMPORT LETTERS 1 BY 1 from ILLUSTRATOR- ILL- ALT + eyeball to select only 1 layer - copy and paste into the letter box on glyphs and delete invisible box
SPACING AND KEARNING- Start with H and O - Hit the "T" Text button. Type in HOHOHOHOHHOH- check spacing- measure width of inside O in Illustrator Graph- each big box in Ill is 100px wide- take 2/3 width and make left and right bearing on O this number - then 1.5 your O bearing = your H bearing. See if it looks good- assign to all the round letters like Q- assign "O instead of bearing numbers- then do "H" in all the other type of letters
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