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Type design ~secrets~ for the efficient creation of italic fonts - tips, tricks, and scripts

This workflow video explains how I currently make italic companions to upright fonts, including some background, theory, and actual point-dragging action. Disclaimers: • These aren’t really “secrets,” I just think it’s somewhat funny to have click-baity titles. There are some really useful techniques in here, though! • I didn’t really invent any of the ideas here about drawing italics. Rather, these are theory and techniques I have picked up from more experienced type designers, and worked to make my own. Here’s my typeface Name Sans, as mentioned in the video: https://name.arrowtype.com Here’s the RoboFont script I use to make “faux italics” as a starting point for this process: https://gist.github.com/arrowtype/4bc... Contents: 0:00 Intro & Context 3:54 The upright source fonts for Name Sans 7:31 How much can italic generation be automated by a script? 9:50 Why can’t you just skew a font to make it italic? 13:57 The secret to making an italic: skew + rotate (then fix) 19:04 The output of the italic generating script 24:15 Why I prefer GlyphsApp for fixing generated italics 24:04 Let’s talk about extrema 27:24 Fixing the drawings 43:04 Bonus: looking at browser support for variable slnt/ital axes