From the course: Creating Fonts with Fontself, Illustrator, and Photoshop
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Adjusting glyph sizes
From the course: Creating Fonts with Fontself, Illustrator, and Photoshop
Adjusting glyph sizes
- [Instructor] Here in Illustrator at the welcome screen, I'm just going to click on the Illustrator icon here to go into the application with no document open. Then I'm going to go to the Window menu and down to Extensions and Fontself Maker. I'm going to open a font that I made earlier. So if I tap Open, I'm going to choose this TypetonicStained, which is in the exercise files, and tap Open. And that is brought in. Now you may want to scale the size of your glyphs, because you don't know what size this is at at the moment but Fontself tries to scale it for you when it brings it in. In fact, if you hover over any of these things, you'll notice that there are small numbers popping up in the background. If you look just behind the number one there, you can see that it's using actually Adobe Source Pro to show that glyph. Let's go down to some other characters here, which may be slightly different. And if I just tap on…
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