: How do you design typefaces? Hi Everyone I am working with a client and he wants me to design handwritten typefaces. I tried it with mouse but it is hard to do with mouse. Any idea of how

@Candy945

hand draw your characters. I'd set up a sheet with a grid for x-height, cap height, em width etc
Refine till your happy with them
Scan them
In Illustrator, autotrace each character. Then refine.
If you want to create a typeface, then work with Fontographer or similar. You can paste each character into Fontographers character grid.
Generate your font format. OpenType, Truetype etc


I know this is a simplified run through, but that's the basics of how I'd do it.

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