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Create a geometric font: Preparing characters for Fontself

Create a geometric font: Preparing characters for Fontself

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Create a geometric font: Preparing characters for Fontself

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- [Instructor] I've created my letters and numerals using a grid and my Live Paint selection tool. I now need to expand my live paint groups. I'll come to the Object menu and choose Expand. My letters and numerals are all currently stroked, and even though Fontself will accept them in this state, it's going to be preferable if we can outline their strokes to convert the strokes into fills. In doing this, I introduce some unnecessary areas of overlap so I'll come to the Path Finder and merge those together. Currently, everything is in one group. I need to ungroup it so that each letter is its own object. I'm going to unlock my guides. And I have guides that are marking the cap height and the baseline. And they are labeled as such on my layers. I'll now select A through Z, and come and open up Fontself Maker. Click on A-Z. I'll click on a-z lowercase because this is a unicase font that will use the same glyphs for upper and…

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