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

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- [Man] This chapter is all about the essential skills and considerations you should have when you're going to start making fonts in Illustrator. Now, if you're a complete ninja or you believe you are already, then perhaps you can go ahead and skip it, but it's not a long chapter, so if I were you, I'd at least give it a look. So, what we have here are the individual characters or part of a character set from a font I designed called, Data 20. They were all built from a grid system, so they're nice and geometric in that way. And the first familiarity I want you to be certain of is with layers. Now, you might think, okay, I know layers here. That's fine, I create something. I add a new layer and so on. It's actually drilling down into that layer is what I'm actually interested in here. As long as you understand that everything gets its own little layer every single object here, including the guide that you can see as the…

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