This book is as much theory as practice, but the theoretical is well documented, and can inform actual design.
But it is a great choice for a second or third book on the topic, if you have at least one of the others, first. That said, it is not as strong a general-purpose how-to-make-fonts-from-beginning-to-end book.
This book covers a number of specific type design issues, collecting ideas and issues you either won’t find elsewhere at all, or at least all in one place. Be sure to jump to the back to get the advice on spacing! It may suffer a bit from the author not being a type designer. Very useful for what it covers, and its coverage is a bit different from any other. Focuses on a detailed analysis of letter shapes and proportions, one letter at a time. Great complement to Henestrosa et al., or Cheng, or even as a first book if you are on a tight budget. Out of print, but used copies are generally $8 to $16 now (including shipping!), down from a peak of $300 before Cheng’s book came out (at a time when there were no other practical books out there). Not just about Fontographer, but rather an invaluable general discussion of proper creation of letter outlines and point placement, as well as all sorts of tips. Ancient and has crazy old pixelated screen shots, but still remarkably useful. Fontographer: Type by Design by Stephen Moye.Previously available from Amazon in Europe ( Amazon UK ships globally also DE, FR and IT), now only from St Bride Library. Arguably the best practical how-to book out there on type design. How to create typefaces: from sketch to screen by Cristóbal Henestrosa, Laura Meseguer and José Scaglione.Note that three of these books (Henestrosa et al., Moye, Cheng) offer exceedingly similar advice on spacing, which they have all borrowed from Walter Tracy’s Letters of Credit, which appears further below (as aside from the several pages of incredibly useful spacing advice, it is not directly a how-to-design-fonts book). Type Design Brief: How to approach and define a type design project, my answer on Quora.īooks directly on type design, in vaguely descending order of how useful they are as practical guides to help make fonts.
How Do You Make a Font? my answer on Quora.Here is my collection of links and resources on designing typefaces and making fonts, all in one place! If you do not already have general typography background, read my post aimed at beginners and non-designers interested in typography. No, you wouldn’t show all these layers at once while drawing.
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