HOW TO CREATE A GLYPH HOW TO

You likely will find it easier to create the “s” in Illustrator, and import it to our Photoshop file from there. Set our “w” glyph as a “w”, and our “m” glyph as an “m”. If you do, try to line them up and then go again. You may get a dialogue about misaligned letters, but you shouldn’t. If there are a lot, you may want to hold down Shift, and click the first one and then then the last one.īoth of our Photoshop courses cover working with layers if this is something that you are not aware of.Īfter this, follow the normal Ctrl-Click-Drag procedure for importing into the FontSelf Panel. The way to do this is by going to the Layers Panel and Ctrl-Clicking each Glyph layer you want to use. You can actually drag multiple glyphs into the FontSelf Panel in one shot. Do not drag the glyphs into the FontSelf Panel just yet. Use a grid if you want to fine-tune your creation (In fact, that’s exactly what I would recommend if we were making a complete font, and not just a few glyphs). You can use the image below as a reference. Make sure both of these letters bottoms align with the bottom of the document. Click Alternate.Īfter you’ve done this, use what you’ve learned so far to create glyphs for lowercase “w”, and “m”. This time, when you try to replace the square with “A”, a dialogue will come up, matching the one in Figure 9.

HOW TO CREATE A GLYPH HOW TO

Later on in the tutorial, we’ll get to how to make those.įor now, do what we did with the previous “A”…. You’ll notice I’ve been purposefully leaving out the triangular “hole” from the top half of the “A”…. Make another “A” that looks different than the initial 1. This extension frees us from a lot of the logistical burden normally involved in Glyph Design. Notice the square under our “A”? Click that square, type “A”, and then hit Enter.įontSelf takes care of Height and Base and all other sorts of Font technicalities that can usually bog down the excitement of making a font. Now, your FontSelf Panel will look like Figure 7.

Drag it to the bottom one, which is white in Figure 6. Now, Ctrl-Click your shape, and Drag it onto the FontSelf Panel. You may need to press V to leave the Pen tool. To make a point that’s unconnected to prior points, Hold Shift and Click.įigure 5 is what my “A” looks like. The next step is to use the Pen tool to make a generic “A” Glyph in our document.įor those of you who haven’t used the Pen Tool, it’s quite simple.Ĭlick to add points, Press Alt and Click each point after making that point, and Click and Drag to make a curve instead of a straight line. Open the drop-down that says “Path” and change it to “Shape” Once you have selected the Pen Tool, go to the Top Left corner of your window. The FontSelf extension actually makes that quite easy.Ĭlick the Pen Tool in the Toolbar, or press P. Once it’s ready, the FontSelf window should look like Figure 2.īefore we can make a Glyph Alternate, we need to make a Glyph. Open Photoshop and Create a New Document.Īt the top of your screen, go to Window > Extensions > FontSelf MakerįontSelf Maker sometimes takes a while to boot up, especially on its first time. When I “Ctrl-Click” and try to drag a shape to make it a glyph, it just stretches the shape.Why is the font created in the tutorial not so nice-looking?.

How to create a glyph