3/28/2024 0 Comments Birdfont commercial freeLine height can’t be directly changed in Birdfont, and I’d have to individually scale up each character and then fix the kerning to fix the issue. It can be fixed by using custom line heights, but it’s still not ideal. This means the default line height is way too much. I wish I’d read up a little more about things I needed to keep in mind before I got started, because I created all my letters a lot smaller than I should have. I made sure to support at least the basics. I remember my early days as a design enthusiast on the internet - the free fonts on never came with any punctuation marks. Here’s what that looked like after a weekend of work: It was a lot better than I expected, and so I decided to complete the default unicode glyphs - uppercase, lowercase, numbers and some punctuation as a side project. I first worked only on the capital letters, and tested out the resulting font file. I tweaked some of the shapes directly in Birdfont to fix scaling/rotation issues - but it’s a lot more complicated to do this in Birdfont (and it took me a while to even figure out how) so I’d recommend getting your shapes as clean as possible within Illustrator. If you are seriously considering getting into type design, I’d recommend looking into other commercial options.īirdfont supports copy-pasting from Illustrator, so I took my existing vectors from Illustrator and simply pasted them into Birdfont. It was great for a beginner like me, but the interface (like many open source software) leaves a lot to be desired. BirdFont has a lot of weird quirks, but it has some documentation so it wasn’t too hard to play around with it to figure it out. I looked up softwares for creating fonts, and came across BirdFont - a free, open source font editor. I really liked how it turned out - and wondered if I could turn it into a font for use in future projects. I wanted a hand-made look for the stickers, so I was manually doing the lettering using a Wacom graphics tablet. While interning at Zomato last winter, I worked on some illustrations for a Zomato iMessage sticker pack.
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