Fontathon 2024: Day 2

[@theo5928]

hi love your videos! It would be helpful if you made a video about your plugins / workspace setup. I often see in your videos various measuring tools and element colouring systems that's not in my glyphs setup. I imagine you use them for a reason and would be interesting to hear your insights. Also any scripts or quality of life shortcuts that help you design more efficiently would be interesting! Thanks:)

[@DanielNisbet]

Great idea! I'll add it to my list-thanks so much

[@Dae.84]

Making fonts is not as easy as other people imagine, I am creating my own font.

[@jiro4559]

Hey Daniel! I'm a graphic designer and I want to explore the fontmaking process, but I don't know where to even start, apart from just googling a lot and hope to stumble across something useful. Can you recommend anything at all? Books, websites, forums, etc.? Just having that roadmap would be great. I don't have a Mac so I guess something like FontLab could be used instead of Glyphs, right?

[@DanielNisbet]

Hey! I'd say typedesignresources.com/ is probably the best website/repository of resources I've found. It links to everything from books to software, etc. As far as software, I've heard Windows folks gravitate towards FontLab, so that's probably a great place to start. FontForge is a free option as well if cost is a factor, but I think the ease of use requires more of a learning curve.