From the course: Design an Italic Typeface
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Basic lowercase letters - Glyphs App Tutorial
From the course: Design an Italic Typeface
Basic lowercase letters
- [Instructor] Continuing with the basic lowercase letters, we're next going to do the lowercase N. So, we'll start that with the lowercase I as a starting point. So, we'll open up both. And you'll remember we changed the angle on the lowercase I, so I'm going to use the stem from the lowercase N here. I'm going to send it to the background so I have a copy in the background. I'll get rid of this serif and this serif. And for the left side, I want to connect these two points and send them to the baseline. So, let's create a guideline first to guide us as we do that. And then move it to the baseline. Okay. Alright, and our stem width should be 73 units. It's at 72 right now. So, 73.2, let's get rid of that. And now let's copy this serif over. And we'll connect it on the left and right. Alright. Correct the path direction. Let's get rid of this. We want the second stroke to be about three quarters of the width of the roman, so let's just move this over. And we can eye it. And I'll grab…
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