![]() ![]() ![]() An exclamation point can be your lowercase “i,” upside down.) Pay attention to letterforms that look similar-you might want to differentiate your lowercase “L” and uppercase “I” to keep them from looking exactly the same your zero and uppercase “O” as well. (A lowercase d and b are often the same, but flipped. Remember that you can copy-and-paste similar characters. All of the artboards I used to create my latest font, Trackpad Sans. I like to use the brush tool to “draw” a letter in a handwriting style. You can use the pen tool to draw complex letterforms. There are a lot of options for how to go about this! You can start by drawing rectangles and circles and using the pathfinder tool to create customized shapes for each letter. Once you have your artboards and dimensions set, click “ok” and create your document. The full range of characters in a font is known as the character set. (This will be a long process!) You’ll need more if you want to create accented letters, special characters, or a full set of symbols most typefaces you find on Google Docs or Adobe Typekit have around 1,500 characters. However, for a basic set of letters and numbers and common punctuation symbols, create 80 artboards. If you want to design just uppercase letters, you will only need 26 artboards. (Just keep in mind that the file will load faster if the artboards are smaller.) Create one artboard for every character you will need to create. I use the dimensions 350 x 350 px because it imports easily into Font Forge, my favorite font creation software, but you can use any square-shaped size. You’re going to need a ton of artboards, but they can be pretty small. ![]() You can resize a vector to any size and it will never lose quality-which is how fonts are built, too! In Illustrator, create a new document. Vectors, on the other hand, store information in a series of geometric shapes and points. Photoshop and InDesign store information in pixels, which means that any image has the opportunity to lose quality when scaled down or become pixelated when scaled up. Adobe Illustrator is the best program to use for font creation because you need to work with vectors.
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