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This FontForge Tutorial Video Online Training course provides a fool-proof introduction to font creation from one of the best graphics tutors in the world. Expert James Street draws from his combined experience as an artist and trainer to provide a basic, beginner-level course that will eliminate the confusion can come from trying to teach yourself such a complex skill and let you learn a functional font creation workflow one step at a time. Through these 84 tutorials, you'll learn how to use the powerful free tools in this open source application as well as the core concepts of type design. While the training takes a basic level approach, it may also be utilized by more experienced designers wanting to see how FontForge works. Whatever your background, there is simply no better way to learn font design than direct instruction, where you can see the creative process in real time. Even better, these FontForge online training videos are split into individual lessons based on the topics covered, making it easy to focus your efforts and learn at your own pace. Once you have registered for the FontForge tutorial, will also get full access to all tutorial video online training courses on the site.

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Topics covered on this tutorial video include:
About the Course About FontForge Font Basics Workflows
  • Overview
  • Parts
  • Outlined Path
  • Hybrid
  • Decisions
Installing Your Toolset
  • Introduction
  • Install on Ubuntu
  • Mac Options
  • Windows Options
  • Virtualization
  • Run a LiveCD
Interface Fundamentals
  • Introduction
  • Opening Existing Fonts
  • Font View
  • Outline Window
  • Metrics Window
  • Components of the Glyph pt. 1
  • Components of the Glyph pt. 2
  • Components of the Glyph pt. 3
  • Extrema
  • Tools pt. 1
  • Tools pt. 2
  • Tools pt. 3
  • Tools pt. 4
  • Tools pt. 5
  • Saving
  • Consistency
How to Create a Font: Parts
  • Getting Started
  • Guides
  • Vertical Stem
  • The Shoulder pt. 1
  • The Shoulder pt. 2
  • Saving Components
  • Similar Glyphs
  • Bowl Glyphs pt. 1
  • Bowl Glyphs pt. 2
  • Mixed Bowl & Stem
  • Dots
  • Crossbars
  • Diagonals pt. 1
  • Diagonals pt. 2
  • Diagonals pt. 3
  • The Final Letter: S
  • Conclusion
How to Create a Font: Outlined Paths
  • Introduction
  • Laying Down the Paths pt. 1
  • Laying Down the Paths pt. 2
  • Laying Down the Paths pt. 3
  • Expanded Stroke Options pt. 1
  • Expanded Stroke Options pt. 2
  • Expanded Stroke Tweaking
  • Modification
  • Conclusion
How to Create a Font: Hybrid
  • Introduction
  • Cleaning Up the Scanned Image pt. 1
  • Cleaning Up the Scanned Image pt. 2
  • To Autotrace or Not To Autotrace?
  • Manual Tracing
  • Inkscape pt. 1
  • Inkscape pt. 2
Refining & Generating Fonts
  • Introduction
  • Validating Fonts pt. 1
  • Validating Fonts pt. 2
  • Advance Width pt. 1
  • Advance Width pt. 2
  • Lookups & Kerning
  • Creating Lookups & Kerning Pairs
  • Creating & Modifying Bitmap Strikes
  • Generating Fonts
Review & Course Wrap-up
  • Summary
  • Challenge!
Credits
  • About the Author

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