FontFace: The Complete Guide to Creating, Marketing & Selling Digital Fonts - Brossura

Julien, Alec

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0240823974 ISBN 13: 9780240823973

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2012

Riassunto

FontFace is a comprehensive and practical guide that explores every aspect of the font creation process, covering everything from sketching initial letterforms to mastering the font creation software packages FontLab and Fontographer. Significantly, this book also addresses the important issue of how designers can best market and sell their fonts, and includes advice on copyright and working with foundries, as well as how designers can set up their own foundries. Throughout the book, screen grabs and illustrated diagrams accompany clear and accessible text, clarifying each part of every process and arming readers with all the essential information they need. Interviews with professional font designers provide an insight into their working processes, while accompanying portfoliios demonstrate a wide range of inspoirational font styles.

Packed with examples of inventive and original fonts, FontFace is guaranteed to provide hours of inspiration, while the focus on practical font creation makes this an essential tabletop reference for type designers, letterers, graphic designers, illustrators, and type enthusiasts at all levels.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Alec Julien is a font creator and graphic designer living in the northeastern United States. He started his own font foundry, Haiku Monkey, in 2007, and has since published over 50 font families, including two open-source familes, and nearly four dozen for sale on MyFonts.com and Fonts.com. He has published typography articles online on his own blog and on the renowned iLoveTypography.com, touching on a wide range of topics, from practical matters of font creation, to  ligatures in graffiti, to the ephermeral topic of analyzing inconspicuous vertical metrics.

Contenuti:

Part I: Typography Essentials

Chapter 1: Key Principles and Terms

Chapter 2: Creating Letterforms

Part II: Creating a Font

Chapter 3: From Lettering to Vector File

Chapter 4: Font Creation Software Tutorials

Part III: Going Pro

Chapter 5:Marketing and Selling Your Fonts

Part IV: Resources

Glossary

Index

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0240823974
• ISBN 13: 9780240823973
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 208