From the course: Creating Fonts with Fontself, Illustrator, and Photoshop
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Artwork preparation and font creation
From the course: Creating Fonts with Fontself, Illustrator, and Photoshop
Artwork preparation and font creation
- [Instructor] So here we go. I have a font here, ready to go. This is the most fully-featured font in this course. I didn't give it its usual name. It is actually available. I didn't give it its usual name 'cause it sounds, well, anyway, let's just leave that there. You've got some characters here. So there's uppercase and lowercase, numerals and also a kind of subset of some popular punctuation and symbols. So first thing I do is I make sure that my guides are all unlocked and then just hover over one and kind of click on it just to make sure that it's selected. Ideally, drag across some because that way you know you're not going to move any of them. And then I go into the Layers panel and make sure everything there is unlocked and twirl-open a few and just make sure all of my guides here are named and unlocked, all of the characters there. There's nothing saying compound path or group, any of those things, unless I…
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