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Practical Font Design The Revised and Expanded Third Edition BUT Practical Font Design With FontLab 5 is the final edition. A rewritten, expanded 3rd edition including the second edition of part one and part two (on building book font families) plus new materials giving a practical walk through the process of designing a font and families. This is not about artistic considerations, but the practicalities of putting a font together. On the other hand, the design approach is fine art. David's training is as a fine art printmaker: etchings & stone lithography. The basic procedure we use for font design is found in this book. It is a step by step following of new font designs with tips and comments along the way. A book to help graphic designers design fonts Here at the foundry, we use FontLab 5 in the production of our fonts. Over the years we have developed over a hundred fonts. In the process, we have picked up a lot of experience in the process of designing a font efficiently. This is not a book for programmers and scripters. This is a book for graphic designers and typographers who love type and want to make their own fonts-either for themselves or to sell. In the process of writing this book, several things were developed that you might find useful in your design process. In general, these are pieces of copy or FontLab files that will save you the time required to make your own. There are lists of composite glyphs to generate, and OpenType features file, and a text file to use when generating metrics and kerning tables. You can find them on this page. Here's a condensed table of contents for you to see what is in the book Why a 3rd edition?xv Because I've learned so much since I wrote the first twoxv This is a small one-person low budget operationxvi Welcome!To the 3rd edition of practical font design1 Defining typography2 A Practical Approach To Classifying Fonts9 Type drawing tools33 The creation of a font47 A step by step procedure47 A new unilateral serif font49 Begin with a new or base font50 Scan & trace67 Letterspacing109 Some definitions109 The decisions needed for good letter fit110 Basic methodology110 FontLab's Metrics panel111 Typical adjustments to spacing115 Display or Text?118 For Practical Font Design: Part Two I went much more traditional118 Generating fonts for testing123 Making composite glyphs127 Generating the basic characters127 Adding OpenType Features133 What is an OpenType feature?133 Writing an OpenType feature134 How a feature works135 Using classes136 Adding features to our new font138 Ligatures146 Kerning your new font151 The Metrics window151 The need for a kerning text document152 The kerning process154 what to kern & by how much?156 Using real words159 Classes160 Tracing drawings & artwork163 Placing into Illustrator164 Make sure the scan is clean164 Live Trace in Illustrator166 Designing font families171 Let's start traditional171 Book font family characteristics175 Text versus display175 The need for text and display versions180 The need for a sans version180 Kerning & Assembling the family237 Generating the fonts241


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781460979587
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Depth: 15
  • Height: 226 mm
  • No of Pages: 266
  • Weight: 476.70 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1460979583
  • Publisher Date: 08 Dec 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Edition: 3 REV EXP
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 150 mm


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