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Planning a type family - Glyphs App Tutorial
From the course: Glyphs App Essential Training
Planning a type family
- [Instructor] A font can be an individual, or it can be a member of a family. Decorative or display fonts are often stand-alone types with specific purposes or aesthetics, while fonts used for setting lots of text generally belong to a family of related designs that build on a core idea. A typical font family contains a regular, or Roman, font for setting text, and an italic, bold, and bold-italic for creating emphasis. A font family can have as few as two members, like a Roman and italic, or it can have as many as 50 or more members, including bolds, italics, semi-bolds, lights, thins, condensed, compressed, extendeds, and a variety of other weights and widths. When you begin a font project, it's important for you to do a little family planning. Decide on how many variations you want or need. And if you plan to have italics, develop a separate Glyphs file and keep the measurements like x-height and Cap Height consistent with the Roman file. But here's where fonts with multiple…
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