From the course: Glyphs App Essential Training
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Glyph sets: The parts of fonts - Glyphs App Tutorial
From the course: Glyphs App Essential Training
Glyph sets: The parts of fonts
- Up to this point I've been discussing letters, and more specifically, a portion of the letters in the Latin alphabet. But a standard font must contain more than letters to be useful. Punctuation, numbers, and accents are just some of the other characters in a font. Fonts can contain a nearly limitless number of characters. It can even contain items that aren't characters at all, like illustrations, graphic symbols, and letter form components. The term glyph is used as a blanket term for any element in a font set, hence the name of the program, Glyphs App. But what should a glyph set contain? The answer is really whatever you want, or whatever the job requires. A font could contain only a single glyph like a company logo, or a limited character set like casic capitals. When you start a new font in glyphs, the file is automatically populated with 53 characters: uppercase, lowercase, and a space. Yes, you even have to design a space. The font view in glyph shows categories of glyphs in…
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