How To Make A Custom Font Using Fontself

How to make your own typeface? Have you ever wanted to make your own font? It's hard to make a font and tedious to kern a typeface, or so I thought. That all changed when I found out about Fontself. I gave it a spin. It's fun and highly addictive. If you've ever wanted to design your own font, watch this video tutorial on how to design your own typeface. What big design agencies have made their own custom fonts? What are all the anatomy terms of a letter? Do you get discouraged by how challenging it can be? In this video Chris teaches you how you can make your own custom font. He also teaches you all the terminology for the anatomy of a letter. 👉 Use our affiliate link for Fontself: https://fs.tl/thefuturoftype 🔥 Enter your font into our contest: https://thefuturisyou.typeform.com/to/bmu1Jq Download the Typocracy book: https://www.fontself.com/#welcome-to-typocracy Tips -Make sure to name your guides as “Baseline”, “Ascender”, “Descender”, “capHeight”, or “xHeight” in your layers panel -Make sure you don’t have repetitive letters/characters -Double check you write ALL of the alphabet 00:34 - Does the world need another poorly designed typeface? 02:00 - The 3 challenges to making a typeface 03:17 - 5 reasons why you should consider designing your own font 05:29 - Who are historical masters of typeface design? 06:27 - Who are some present day superstars of typeface design? 07:43 - Example of design firms that have used custom typefaces (Nuts) 08:22 - Michael Beirut working on WALK NYC 09:43 - Designers who make an income selling fonts 11:24 - Terminology & Anatomy of typefaces 15:08 - Recap of all the terms (screenshot this) 15:18 - What is the unity of design? 15:38 - The 4 groups of letter types 18:08 - The 3 different types of typefaces that Chris is going to make 18:46 - Chris writing the font he’s going to make 23:03 - Editing the picture of the font in Photoshop 25:55 - Taking the font into Illustrator 43:00 - Using Fontself to make your font 48:59 - Converting a vector drawing into a font 58:00 - Changing Futura to Futur Futura 58:56 - What is Fontself? 1:00:00 - Design Challenge #sponsored #typography #customfont === 👉Subscribe: https://goo.gl/vB9zoP 👉See our main channel: https://goo.gl/F2AEbk #TheFutur Want a deeper dive? Typography, Lettering, Sales & Marketing, Social Media and The Business of Design courses available here: https://goo.gl/bRt5qd If you're a complete beginner, consider taking any of these Adobe Creative Cloud fundamental courses from our friends at Bring Your Own Laptop: http://byol.me/thefutur — Love the content? Become a sustaining member for $5/mo today. https://goo.gl/nwekfL Our recommended products and Booklist: https://kit.co/TheFuturIsHere Kits & Proposals: https://goo.gl/mSjuWQ Visit our website: https://www.thefutur.com FREE resources: https://goo.gl/Qh6gHr Mandarin (Chinese) Subtitles on UiiUii https://uiiiuiii.com/?s=the+futur — AFFILIATE LINKS* 🙏 Support The Futur but purchasing through our affiliate links: Amazon: http://bit.ly/thefuturishere Webflow: http://bit.ly/2EbET9l Retro Supply Co.: http://bit.ly/2GW8gzR Creative Market: https://goo.gl/g4jlTE Design Cuts: http://bit.ly/2GSsAR3 ✍️ Sharpen your skills by taking a course, using our affiliate links: Skillshare: https://goo.gl/YCo2uT School of Motion: http://bit.ly/futur-som Bring Your Own Laptop Tutorials: https://byol.me/thefutur 🎧 Do you like the music? Check out the music libraries we use in our affiliate links below: Epidemic Sound: http://share.epidemicsound.com/thefutur Musicbed: http://bit.ly/futurmb Artlist: http://bit.ly/2uWdna7 *By making a purchase through any of our affiliate links, we receive a very small commission at no extra cost to you. This helps us on our mission to provide quality education to you. Thank you. — Futur Podcast on iTunes: 🎙 https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-futur/id1209219220?mt=2 Spotify: 🎙 https://open.spotify.com/show/5K96ryZCjCmxqMzEotvS8h?si=J0NnGXwcQCymfBEA4poEVA — We love getting your letters. Send it here: The Futur c/o Chris Do 1702 Olympic Blvd. Santa Monica, CA 90404 USA — Host– Chris Do Cinematographers– Jona Garcia Editors– Jona Garcia Social Team– Elle Money, Alex Burlui Futur Theme Music – Adam Sanborne http://www.adamsanborne.com Typefaces: Futura, DIN, Helvetica Neue, Calibre, Champion Gothic Futur theme song— Adam Sanborne