The process for making and selling a font

I designed a font! And in this video I'll walk you through the making and selling process.

My font is called Grayscale and it's a handmade sans-serif. I hope you enjoy hearing about how I designed it, all the tools I used to make a font, and where I decided to sell my font.

Figma is a design tool that helps teams create, test, and ship better designs from start to finish. And it's free! :)

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I'm Charli and I'm designer from New Zealand currently living in Valencia, Spain. I’m the Creative Director at a remote tech company called ConvertKit and I posting videos about the design projects I work on and the tools I use, as well as vlogs of my life as a designer. I regularly livestream what I'm working on in Coworking Club streams. Welcome to the channel! Please subscribe and say hi in the comments, and maybe we'll see you in the live chat on the next stream.

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[yazimedia]

The H-O tip for kerning is genius. Thank you!

[batchrocketproject]

Charli, I know nothing about design or e-commerce but am blown away by the content and presentation of this video. From the (realistic) time scales to the effort and detail that goes into executing a concept well, your video captures so many nuggets that stimulate thought and further investigation. Thank you and best wishes for your future projects.

[viktoriagevorgyan]

There's an episode of the Netflix docu series "Abstract" about Jonathan Hoefler and his process for Typeface Design (season 2 last episode) and it's suuuuper interesting, it also goes over some of the points you do in your video. Great content! V useful. Also the font looks great!

[krovomess]

Thank you so much, i thought about developing my font further and have been looking for such video, you cover everything and explained things to tackle on the journey of creating a font, thank you so much for this❤❤❤

[mariaqueiro]

Inspiring! Thank you so much for showing us all the steps, the whole process sounded so cool (and rewarding) and the result even cooler!

[afancyredneck]

Thank you for all the info, Its been helpful working on my fonts, I will be watching this video again!

[skoolie_life]

Thanks for sharing the process with us Charli. Your font came out really nice! Teela’s font-making course has been on one of my back burners for a couple of years now. Congrats on finishing and launching!

[Abrahamic.Design]

Charli, you are a very impressive and inspiring designer! Well done and congratulations on your font. Goodness, you are a hard worker.

[odysseyofthelinecalligraphy]

I also took Teela’s class! I took the PC version, but just bought a Mac so now I’m going to be learning Glyphs. I just listed my first font on my website yesterday and can’t wait to make my next.

[ayshafernandez]

I'm considering taking Teela's course. I have no design background at all so was wondering about how many hours total do you think it took to complete your font. Thank you for sharing.

[TheCaraQhadija]

I would love to try, thank you for sharing

[JustChrisM]

Never knew it took so long to create a font but it paid off. Great font and super video!

[windunes]

Thank you Charlie, lots of valuable info that I was looking for!

[monicasdesignprocess]

Yay! So happy to see you post about the font making process, I'm in the middle of making my first one as well? An elegant serif font. I'm using Fontself Maker which I think is much cheaper and easier to use (Glyphs looks a little bit scary haha). It's basically a plugin for either Illustrator or Photoshop. I was able to get both for a bundle price awhile back, super worth it especially to dabble in my first font. Really hope you make a script font next!

[hatchinghumor]

Great job on making your first font!

I find myself much more interested in how you built a list where you made 45 sales in the span of 5 days.

How did you do that?

[andrea]

Extremely interesting and informative. Found you by chance. The font looks great. Also really appreciate that you don't have ads in your videos. Great option to go with Patreon instead. All the best.

[artboyintennessee]

Super video. I am illustrating a book and the author noticed my handwriting on the notes for the illustrations ans asked me to actually hand write the title and some other elements within the book.
I am also trying to learn ConvertKit to build an email list but I am having some trouble with the technology. It’s all me, though. Not the program. Any advice would be very welcome. 😊

[mdrahatkhan]

today i saw your 2 years ago video and now i am your fan and subscriber.

[koki_peach]

Thanks for the wonderful video from Japan

[BobTheFox]

Super thanks for this insightful video Charlie! Would you be super interesting to get your feedback on the Fontself iPad app :)