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  • Create a text font in FontLab

    Typeface designer Dan Reynolds goes behind the scenes of text fonts Neue Frutiger and Ysobel to demonstrate the font creation process.

  • Create Arabic type

    Typeface designer Titus Nemeth guides you through a free-flowing project designed to add a Middle Eastern flavour to your work.

  • Digitising a bespoke font

    Typography plays an essential role in branding and communicating a tone of voice. Neutura demonstrates how to convert a font design into a functional typeface.

  • Design a display font

    Spacing, kerning, geometrics, ink-traps, proportions, overshoot and inspiration; we explain everything that's important when you start to create your own display font...

  • Create a pattern font

    Pattern fonts are fun to create and can save you a lot of time. Once it's generated, you can modify a pattern to create a new look with just a few clicks.

  • Design a custom typeface

    There may be tens of thousands of fonts out there, but that doesn't mean you can't create your own custom type solution for a unique logo...

  • Distress your fonts

    Looking to give your fonts a grungy, distressed effect? Then look no further. Thomas Schostok explains how to vectorize your bitmaps using Illustrator CS2’s new LiveTrace function to modify a typeface in FontLab 4

  • The Gospel of Type

    In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was in type. Caroline Archer dictates the 12 laws traditionally used to rein in wayward letterforms.
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