Friday, May 13, 2016

OUGD603 / Extended Practice / Wall of Sound / Converting Illustrator Files to Font

The driest part of this project now commences  - importing Illustrator files into the Glyphs app in order to convert to a working font file.

The Glyphs app is new to me and has a fairly steep learning curve but after a few hours I'm getting there and starting to see working font files.

After a few tests dropping PNG files into Glyph (definitely a bad idea), I then tried replacing the dotted lines in the typeface with actual circles in Illustrator. This produced better rusults. After one failed attempt (below) the second try worked!


Below is the first working version, actually typed out! Obviously immediately there is major kerning issues but I'll come to that later. I also need to consider the inverse version (which is actually more usable!).


Below is the font at 72pt, which cannot be read...


Below at 200pt , which works better, also with extremely condense kerning - which is way out!



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