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13 Important Resources for Learning How to Design Typefaces and Full Fonts

13 Important Resources for Learning How to Design Typefaces and Full Fonts

on Jan 25th 2012 with 2 comments

If you’re serious about creating a typeface design, then you’ll need some solid resources to get started. Learn effective typeface design workflows, how to take an initial spark of an idea from sketch, through Illustrator, into Fontlab, and then work your creation into a complete and custom font design. Here are multiple tutorials that show you how to create fonts in Illustrator and Fontlab, and you can also dive into articles that describe the foundation of quality type design with ample inspirational examples.

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How to Create a Trendy Retro Type Treatment

on Oct 7th 2011 with 89 comments

A few times a each month we revisit some of our reader’s favorite posts from throughout the history of Vectortuts+. This tutorial by Rype was first published on September 11th 2008.

In this Illustrator tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a trendy retro type treatment with a free font, gradients, blends, and some scatter brushes. It’s a relative easy tutorial containing techniques that can be quickly applied to many other type treatments and various graphic elements.

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This entry is part 21 of 22 in the Vector Text Effects Session