Episode 1: Designing Your First Font in Glyphs Mini

Опубликовано: 23 Июль 2026
на канале: Daniel Nisbet

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I'm back with a new series! Is one of your goals to create a new font this year? Let's start with the basics. We'll go step-by-step in Glyphs Mini to create a basic alphabet, learning about the Glyphs interface and talking about the basic foundations of what makes a well-designed typeface.

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
2:05 Font Info settings
4:10 What are control characters?
5:10 About the Glyphs Mini design interface
6:45 Toolbar
7:35 Sidebar
9:43 Preview panel
10:25 Starting the lowercase n
22:50 Setting up the spacing
23:45 Lowercase m
27:03 Lowercase u
28:55 Lowercase i
30:33 Writing our first word
32:20 Lowercase h
34:34 Wrapping up