Episode 1: Designing Your First Font in Glyphs Mini

I'm back with a new series! Is one of your goals to create a new font this year? Let's start with the basics. We'll go step-by-step in Glyphs Mini to create a basic alphabet, learning about the Glyphs interface and talking about the basic foundations of what makes a well-designed typeface.

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
2:05 Font Info settings
4:10 What are control characters?
5:10 About the Glyphs Mini design interface
6:45 Toolbar
7:35 Sidebar
9:43 Preview panel
10:25 Starting the lowercase n
22:50 Setting up the spacing
23:45 Lowercase m
27:03 Lowercase u
28:55 Lowercase i
30:33 Writing our first word
32:20 Lowercase h
34:34 Wrapping up

[JoeyHillenbrand]

This is exactly the kind of video I've needed for so long - thank you and I hope you make more!

[StuartDMcKee]

Thank you, Daniel! I will be teaching students how to use Glyphs Mini this semester, and I plan to share your video with them. I last taught using Font Lab Studio more than eight years ago, and your video brought me up to snuff quickly on the Glyphs Mini protocol. I will certainly be watching the entire series. I offer you my best!

[dargancrowleylong]

Yup, keep it coming Daniel! Loving this series

[AbdurRahman-liic]

I wish I had seen this video 2 years ago. This is so far the easiest tutorial for designing font.

[anthonygrant]

Such a great tutorial. Thank you for sharing all of these tips and tricks—especially components!

[connergayda]

Super helpful video, Daniel!

Question for you: do you use these same base grid settings each time you design a font? If not, how do you determine what your grid settings will be? General rules of thumb for setting up a gird? Maybe this could be a video idea for the future if the answer is too complex for the comments…

[softwaremaniactest]

Excellent. I feel like we should pay for this instruction!

[CrescentMond]

This feels very useful even for someone like me that can't get Glyphs - because I'm on PC. Still, your insights are great on its own!

[dargancrowley-long]

This was great Daniel! When is the next episode out? 🙂

[aamna]

Which short cut you press to exit this outline mode like i need to see the real letter, and thanks.

[Winstonbee]

Great video on how to start. You created your grid based on units of seven. I have one question. Why seven? Thanks.

[Faisal_Syalvi]

Hi, dear i edit one font but i face one issue, that is lower corners of some words like g, y, j etc. do skip automatically any solution plz???

[jenniferbasnyat]

Great video! I'm very new to Glyph Mini... how do you import your code template file?

[muhammadaziz]

is glyphs mini feature worth it to start selling fonts ?