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Font Design Techniques
From Jacci Howard Bear, About.com Guide
Do you want to make your own fonts? Type designers may be motivated by the desire to earn money, the need for a typeface unlike any others out there, simply for love of the process and art or a combination of these factors.
Explore digital type design techniques. Find font software for making fonts. Study font design standards, copyright issues, famous typographers and font designers in your quest to become a font designer or improve your current font design skills.
Do you want to make your own fonts? Type designers may be motivated by the desire to earn money, the need for a typeface unlike any others out there, simply for love of the process and art or a combination of these factors.
Explore digital type design techniques. Find font software for making fonts. Study font design standards, copyright issues, famous typographers and font designers in your quest to become a font designer or improve your current font design skills.
Typeface Anatomy Basics
In order to design a typeface properly you need to know what all the little bits and pieces are that make up type characters.
What is the significance of Hamburgefonts?
No, it's not a typo. It's Hamburgefonts not Hamburger Fonts. Discover why this word pops up in typography discussions, especially in regards to making your own fonts.
Type Design Quotations
Learn about type design through the words of type designers and others. Take a look at what it takes to do font design (make your own fonts or make fonts to sell).
IKERN Automatic Kerning Service
Describes this automatic kerning service for type designers that compiles kerning tables using iKern. Prefers TrueType for PC.
Chez Porchez Atelier Typo
Keep with various type design workshops and other news and commentary.