From the course: Design an Italic Typeface
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Generating and testing - Glyphs App Tutorial
From the course: Design an Italic Typeface
Generating and testing
- [Instructor] If you haven't already, generate a Roman font from the glyphs file included with the assets for this course. Remember the basic steps. Update the features in the Features tab of the Font Info window. Choose Export or Command + E. Click on Remove Overlap, and then set the Export Destination by double-clicking here or clicking here rather. We'll choose Library, Fonts, and then Next. And it will do the exporting. We'll do the same thing for the italic. So one more time go to Font Info, Features, Update. Close that. And then we can go to File, Export or Command + E. Click on the OTF tab, Remove Overlap. Set the Export Destination to Fonts folder in the Library folder, Next. And now we're ready to start using the font files in InDesign or any other program on the computer. So let's go to InDesign. So I'll select all, type example font, and choose Example Font Roman. And then, to test that our style linking and that our italic is working, we can click on any of these and just…
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