How To Make a Font #
March 12th, 2008 | In Worth Seeing
Kris Sowersby’s explanation of how he makes a font is worth seeing. As someone increasingly interested in this kind of stuff, I found it an approachable introduction (that’s not to say that I intend to do it). On every geek’s favorite part of the process:
Everybody talks about it, but unless you’ve actually gone through the process of kerning a typeface then you have no real idea of what is involved. It’s dead boring, but essential! Kerning, put simply, is the art of adding or subtracting space between pairs of letters. This is the very last thing that I do in the design process—everything should be checked and finished before this happens.