General Resources
Check out these crowdsourced lists of excellent resources:
- Type Resources (Kriti Monga)
Drawing Letters
To properly draw letters, you'll need to know how to use Bezier curves. Check out the following resources:
- Bézier Curves and Type Design: A Tutorial (Scannerlicker)
- How to Draw Beautiful Bezier Curves (Alex John Lucas)
- Creative Inspirations: Doyald Young, Logotype Designer (Doyald Young)
Understanding Type
It's helpful to have a great foundation of graphic design and typographic knowledge before starting your first font. We recommend the resources below:
- Graphic Design Foundations: Typography (Ina Saltz)
- Typography Elements Everyone Needs to Understand (Laura Martin)
- Beginning Graphic Design: Typography (GCFLearnFree.org)
Making Type
Let's get started! We recommend the following trainings:
- Learning Type Design (Charles Nix)
- Glyphs App Essential Training (Charles Nix)
- Font Tutorial - Glyphs Mini 2 (Tyler Finck)
- How Fonts Are Made (Secrets & Insights) (Patrick Kalange)
Character Sets
We recommend meeting our minimum required character set as a starting point when designing fonts. View the character set.
Going Deeper
Ready to take the next step? Learn about expanding font families and more advanced skills:
- Design an Italic Typeface (Charles Nix)
- Design a Condensed Sans Serif Typeface (Charles Nix)