From the course: Creating Fonts with Fontself, Illustrator, and Photoshop

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Compound paths and shapes

Compound paths and shapes

From the course: Creating Fonts with Fontself, Illustrator, and Photoshop

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Compound paths and shapes

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- [Instructor] Okay, so here I've just created a new blank document. The size, not desperately relevant. RGB color profile, which is great. That's the majority of the times you're using Fontself that would make sense to stick in RGB. And what I'm going to do here is bring in a guide for my baseline. So I'm just dragging one in from the left 'cause I was in that neighborhood. I'm going to hold down the Alt or Option key to change its orientation. And I'm going to release that just there and I'll do the same thing again. So I'm pretending now that I've got a baseline and an X height, and I'm going to start drawing some lowercase characters. So I'll go ahead and I'll draw just a straightforward vertical shape here like so, and I'm going to tap D to fill that with the default here and that's a white fill and a black stroke. So I'm just going to hit the slash key to get rid of the fill because that's in front. Hold…

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