60-minute intro to FontLab 7, Part 2 (with Adam Twardoch)

Adam Twardoch explains the user interface of FontLab, and shows you how to draw and space your first glyphs using the most important tools, and how to create your first variable font.

FontLab 7 is a pro font editor for Mac and Windows. Create, open, modify, draw, space, kern, hint and export desktop, web, color and variable OpenType fonts for any Unicode writing system, from Latin, Cyrillic and Greek, to Arabic, Hebrew and Indic, all the way to Chinese, Japanese, emoji, symbols and icons. FontLab offers a modern platform not just for established type designers and font developers, but also for graphic designers and illustrators who wish to customize existing fonts or create their own type designs.

[isurus]

Genius node is coolest thing I've seen in a fontlab video so far.

[yaseenamro]

Hello Professor Adam excellent explanation thank you ... We want to explain from you personally to the weight industry in Fontlab and a dedicated explanation of the changing lines with its own lesson only and finally I wish you Mr. Adam to add Arabic to the program mainly in terms of the possibility of adding Arabic text such as other languages Latin, Russian and others as well as providing the possibility of writing texts in Arabic separately so that we can preview the font during the design of the program in a flexible and easy way

[muhammadsamit]

Please, do a tutorial on Bengali font making. That'll help to understand how to work with conjuncts.

[janejane]

Hi, how do you have the workspace that has an orange contour at 25:41 ?

[yucelsahin]

while I try to edit any font, I see some handle square that not connected any nodes but it moves the curve on one edge, but I cant do this. I watched all your tutorials, couldnt find anything about it?

[alonemanuel]

Hi! My preview panel doesn't seem to show the live editing of the glyph; it rather shows the edit after I finish it (e.g. after releasing a curve)
Any idea why?