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This FontForge Tutorial Video course will provide you with the knowledge and skill set needed to learn how to create usable fonts and typefaces using this incredible open source software, with a simple, hands-on approach that allows you to take creative control. While font design can quickly become a highly technical endeavor, graphics professional James Street steers the course away from confusing jargon and toward direct application. This means that you learn the relevant technical details within context, throughout the creative process. These FontForge tutorials are ideal for users who are totally new to font creation, but it can also be used by more experienced designers wanting to learn about FontForge features in particualr. Because font creation is such an enormous subject area, this video series focuses on core skills and concepts designed to get users creative, providing a solid basis for future projects and development. The videos themselves are playable on Mac, Windows and Linux machines, and the tutor even discusses development differences between operating systems. The FontForge tutorial also includes work files that match the lessons provided. The complete FontForge Tutorial Video series can now be ordered on CD / DVD or viewed streaming online as part of the unlimited video service.

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Creating Fonts with FontForge Tutorial CD / DVD

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Topics Covered on this Training Course

This Training is 7.5 Hours in Duration and Covers 84 Lessons.
Introduction Intro to FontForge Intro to Font Fundamentals
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FonT Design Workflow Options
  • Intro to the Workflow
  • Different Parts
  • Understanding the Outlined Path
  • Hybrid Options
  • What You Need to Decide
Application Installation
  • What You Should Know
  • Ubuntu and Linux
  • Mac OS X
  • Windows Versions
  • Emulation Options
  • How to use LiveCDs for Linux
UI Essentials
  • Getting Started
  • How to Open Fonts
  • How to View Fonts
  • Using the Outline Window
  • Using the Metrics Window
  • Parts of Glyphs
  • Looking at Extrema
  • Utilities and Options
  • How to Save
  • Maintaining a Consistent Appearance
Going Creative: The Most Important Font Parts
  • Intro
  • Using Guides
  • Looking at Vertical Stem
  • Considering The Shoulder
  • How to Save Components
  • Thinking About Similar Glyphs
  • Understanding Bowl Glyphs
  • Understanding Font Parts: Mixed Bowl & Stem
  • Working with Dots
  • Hands-on with Crossbars
  • Hands-on with Diagonals
  • Working with Your S
  • Wrap-Up
Going Creative: Working with Outlined Paths
  • Introduction
  • How to Lay Down Your Paths
  • Hands-on with Expanded Strokes
  • Adjustments to Expanded Stroke
  • Modifying Paths
  • Wrap-Up
Going Creative: Hybrid Methods
  • What You Need to Know
  • Scanning and Cleanup
  • Autotrace Considerations and Options
  • Manual Trace Options
  • Working with Inkscape
  • Working with Inkscape: Video Two
How to Refine and Generate Fonts
  • What You Need to KNow
  • How to Validate Fonts
  • How to Advance Width
  • Lookup & Kerning Considerations
  • Lookup & Kerning Pair Creation
  • Creation & Modification ofBitmap Strikes
  • How to Generate Fonts
Conclusion
  • Wrap-Up
  • Moving Forward
End Notes
  • Tutor Bio

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About this Creating Fonts with FontForge Training CD

Title Creating Fonts with FontForge
Tutor James Street
Other tutorials by James Street
Videos 84 Lessons- Video run time: 7.5 hours
Compatibility Vista, XP, Windows 7, Mac OSX
Released 2011
Availability Immediate Dispatch
Price US / Canadian Sales Only $99.95
Closed Captions Closed Captions are available on this title
492 in stock
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