23 - Drawing lowercase letters 'vwyz'

[@Kurdapiyo]

I doubted your approach to "y" at first, then when it is set next to other letters actually looks just awesome. Your tutorials are great, by the way. One of the best resources to learn type design workarounds and shortcuts.

[@kevinking74]

Thank you for your kind words Chris, and I am so glad that you find the tutorials helpful. In type design, there can be many ways to reach a similar end result in regards to drawing letters, fitting, and kerning. My technique for /y/ above - and for drawing all letters - comes from my own practice of calligraphy, and thinking about letters as being built up structurally from strokes, which can also be thought of as patterns. These patterns then spread themselves across evenly to all of the letters and glyphs, to make a cohesive whole. Gerard Unger had the great analogy of thinking about type design as cooking: "When you cook, you can't throw the ingredients in one corner of the pot, and the spices in the other, and just let them cook; you have to stir them around and mix them. Type design is taking a set of letterform ingredients and spreading them around until you get a harmonious whole." Ultimately, I think it is best for each individual designer to be exposed to a variety of methods, and then to adapt what works best for them into their own approach. Happy fonting!