Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Welcome to my mini font making YouTube series! This is video 1 of 2 where we create our lettering on both paper and iPad, bring it onto the computer, digitize it and set up our file properly to bring our letters into the font making software. In video 2, we'll set spacing, program ligatures and export a working OTF file!

Here are the links to everything mentioned in this video:
🖌️ Tuesday Lettering Guide Brushes: every-tuesday.com/tuesday-guides
🖌️ Ink Lovers brush set: every-tuesday.com/ink-lovers
✍️ Free Procreate lettering guides: every-tuesday.com/procreate-lettering-guides-ck
📝 Free Printable lettering guides: every-tuesday.com/printable-lettering-guides-ck
🖊️ Sharpie acrylic marker: amzn.to/4kBld0o
🖨️ My home printer/scanner combo: every-tuesday.com/canon-printer
▶️ Video on how I mirror my desktop onto my iPad (from the course!): courses.every-tuesday.com/courses/learn-font-making-2-0/lectures/51472036
🎓 Learn Font Making online course: courses.every-tuesday.com/p/learn-font-making-2-0
👩‍💻 Glyphs App (mac font software): glyphsapp.com
🖥️ Font Creator (pc font software): high-logic.com/font-editor/fontcreator

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At the time of this recording, I create my work using a Mac Studio (desktop) + Macbook Air (M1) + iPad Pro 13" (M4), 512GB with an Apple Pencil Pro (I use Paperlike grips + screen protectors: every-tuesday.com/paperlike )

🎶 Music:
I use (and love!) Epidemic Sound for all of my music selections: every-tuesday.com/epidemic

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👩‍💻 Find more from me over at every-tuesday.com

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⌚️ Timestamps:

00:00 Intro/overview
00:28 Prepare letters on an iPad
03:59 Prepare letters on paper
06:39 Illustrator file setup
07:35 Trace settings
10:35 Clean up letters
16:18 Group letters
17:10 Illustrator vs Affinity
18:05 Font software vs plugins
19:50 Layer sequencing
23:38 Coming up!
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