Tutorial: Creating fonts in Illustrator and Fontlab - Part 1 from Go Media on Vimeo
This video is a brief introduction into how to prepare a font you design in Adobe Illustrator for Fontlab. Fontlab is the program of choice for building and managing fonts. There are a few steps that you need to do to prepare your illustrations to work within Fontlab but I tried to show you the most basic way to work in Fontlab.
Later on I will be creating far more extensive videos that will teach you much more that you can do within Fontlab. At Go Media we are going to start sharing video tutorials of how we do some cool tricks and tips on how to work better in creative software.
I have never done a video tutorial before so your feedback is greatly appreciated! Please let me know what you think and how I can improve!
March 22nd, 2008 at 3:41 pm
WOW!!!!!!!!! That was a geat Tut! It is very useful!
Thank You!!! =]
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Hello guys,
I have a question: Why does it say the tutorial was created by Jeff if it was actually created by Katie?
Thanks you
March 23rd, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Good tutorial, have a question about the initial size of the document? Is there a specific size the document should start out as when creating fonts? Thanks!
March 24th, 2008 at 5:46 am
Another great tutorial! Been wanting to learn how to do this for a while, thanks gomedia
March 24th, 2008 at 6:19 am
ps i love the new video based tutorials, keep em coming!
March 24th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
I would say that if you make the font about 900 points in width that would be best. Rule of thumb is the larger you create the font the less it will be messed up when you bring it into fontlab.
May 24th, 2008 at 11:55 am
That was cool. Ta.