Typerobics: Type design exercises. FontLab Studio 5 tutorial with Fábio Duarte Martins скачать в хорошем качестве

Typerobics: Type design exercises. FontLab Studio 5 tutorial with Fábio Duarte Martins

Are your let­ters feel­ing out of shape? Do you aspire to win the regional kern­ing cham­pi­onship? Type­r­o­bics is a type-​​making workout régime intended to shape up your Bézier biceps. Every sport requires exer­cise, and so does type design. Type­r­o­bics is your type design fit­ness plan: pick a word, pick a typo­graphic style, draw that word in under 40 minutes-​​then repeat at least three times a week. In this extensive screencast, Fábio Duarte Mar­tins shows and tells about his daily type draw­ing exer­cises which he calls “Typerobics.” He shows the cre­ation process of a micro-​​typeface (one word’s worth of glyphs) from start to end, using FontLab Studio 5. Fábio and Fontlab’s Adam Twardoch dis­cuss both the design and the tech­ni­cal steps and chal­lenges. This tutorial is a FontLab Stu­dio mini-​​course, a type design exercise, and – hope­fully – will be an inspi­ra­tion for you to fol­low the method. This webi­nar uses FontLab Stu­dio, but the gen­eral prin­ci­ples apply to all font edi­tors, includ­ing Fontographer and TypeTool. Inspired by using the auto­mated “Type­Cooker” app, Type­r­o­bics is an open-​​ended type design work­out to help you stretch your type design skills to new heights! You will learn how to draw glyphs, use a modular type design approach and improve your course. Fábio Duarte Mar­tins is a Por­tuguese type designer, let­terer and oca­sional type edu­ca­tor. He runs Scan­ner­licker!, a one-​​man micro type foundry, since 2009. Fábio has worked for clients such as Sony Com­puter Enter­nain­ment, Dis­ney, and ABC tele­vi­sion. He is also a co-​​founder of FEST — New Direc­tors New Films Fes­ti­val, in Espinho, Portugal. Adam Twardoch is Director of Products at Fontlab Ltd. Visit http://fontlab.com/studio/ to learn more about FontLab Studio 5, the only cross-platform professional font editor!