Drawing all the bezier curves and handles by hand takes ages. Use this Free Bezier curve script for Adobe Illustrator. Download it from Github and modify the code to your liking.

Understanding the peculiarities of the Dutch ‘IJ’ digraph and implementing appropriate spacing and kerning rules is crucial to achieve optimal visual harmony and readability.

Glyphs is a popular font editor for Mac that allows you to create your own custom typefaces. It comes in two versions, Glyphs Mini and Glyphs 3, each with its own set of features and functionalities.

This document will give you an overview of the font proofing process and will help you to identify any technical issues that you may have.

This blog post discussed the importance of font spacing and kerning. It also provided a brief overview of the side bearing values for serif style fonts.

In the book Designing Type by Karen Cheng there are a few spreads about spacing and kerning your font, which is one of the trickier and more time-consuming steps in the font-making process.

I love old type specimen books filled with stacked type in different sizes. In this post I’ll share with you how to create it super fast in Adobe Illustrator.

How wide should I draw the letter M?

Optical sizes in typography explained

A list of my favorite Glyphs Plugins

When you draw your letterforms you have to keep in mind that you use as few points as possible, while maintaining as much possible control over the shape of your lines. In Type Design software like Glyphs, which we use in our Type Design Courses, you can use …

New to font making, want to try out if this is something for you but don’t want to invest in learning complex font software? Fontself is an extension for Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. It allows you to create (color) fonts without leaving your Adobe design software

A pangram is a sentence that uses every letter of a given alphabet at least once. Use this list to showcase your own font or see how the different diacritics are used.