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

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Optimizing artwork

Optimizing artwork

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

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Optimizing artwork

- [Instructor] You need to try and make sure that your artwork is as optimized as it can be. Because for example, there is a kind of maximum of a thousand points per glyphs. So if you're thinking of using image trace to trace a load of stuff and do it, you're going to need to work on that quite a bit in all honesty. So you do need to bear that in mind, it should be easy enough for the computer to render it at a bunch of different scales without the power of Illustrator behind it, that's why that limit exists. Now, the piece of artwork that I've got just here, which is part of an icon font that I created, you'll see more of those characters later on. This has been fairly well optimized. However, it still isn't likely to work. There's a couple of things there that need some attention. Now, I'm just going to hold down the command key Control on windows and tap Y to go into outline mode. And you can see all of these shapes…

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