Lettering in Glyphs — Cutie

• Table of Contents & Video Notes •

Enable Bounding Box [4:20]
—Shift+Option+Command+B

Lock Image [5:55]

Creating & Using Overlap [8:00, 20:55]

Live Preview [9:00]

Tangent Handles [10:05, 44:10]

Show Angled Handles (Plugin) [11:35, 12:35, 47:00]
—Command+Y (If you have the plugin)

Fit Curve (Curve control) [13:45]

Shift anchor point along bezier handles/tangents [14:45, 44:10]
—Hold Option and nudge point

Correct Path Direction [19:05]
—Shift+Command+R

Version Control (Using layers) [22:00]

Creating Guidelines [23:50]

Toggle Background Layer [30:00]
—Command+B

Copy selected foreground paths to Background [30:25, 42:18, 47:50]
—Command+J

Show Handles Everywhere (Plugin) [31:15, 42:18, 47:50]

Accessing Glyphs Plugins [31:45]

SuperTool (Plugin) [33:10, 52:50]
—I forgot to mention that to see the curvatures you must right click and toggle "Show Curvature"

Measuring with Guides [38:35]

Measuring with Ruler [39:10]
—Shortcut: "L"

Scaling, Rotating, and Skewing shapes/paths [46:00]

Insert Inflections (Plugin) [52:15]

Add Extremes [55:00]

Invert Preview [58:30]

Flip Preview [59:15]

Blur Preview [59:50]

Measuring Distance between points [1:01:35]

Heatmap (plugin) [1:02:00]

[allenloob]

Thanks Matthew for the demo ! It's a good introduction to the software.

[nataliaperezpenagos]

Hey did I miss a point where you export the piece? I'm struggling with exporting as a vector file and not as a font file (I need to import it into Illustrator to add color and other effects). Thank you for creating this tutorial!

[MarcusWilliamson_therealmawill]

This is great man. Thanks for posting. Are there things tips and tricks from Glyphs that translate over to illustrator that you know to be helpful?

[kamleshtarekar]

should be available for pc (Windows) ?