From the course: Design an Italic Typeface

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Lowercase rounds

Lowercase rounds - Glyphs App Tutorial

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Lowercase rounds

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- [Instructor] We're now going to move on to lowercase rounded forms and we'll follow the same steps in converting this Roman lowercase O into an italic lowercase O as we did in the capitals. Let's make that larger. This is slanted, so let's go to the background, control, command + J. And let's first condense by 5%. Let's rotate by 15. Let's slant by 15. And then rotate back by 15. Next we'll change the height to match the Roman, to match the overshoot of 20. So let's double check that, we're 18 there. We need to move down by two. Good. Same at the top. We'll measure, we're at 19 now, so let's just move that up. The next thing we want to do is get the stem widths back to what they should be, so the thicknesses. We're at 80 here and we're at 88 in the Roman, so 95% of 88 is 85. I'm going to steal that space from the interior of the form to thicken these thicks. I'll nudge. And on the right, the same. Taking it from the interior so we don't make this form any wider. And then we'll check…

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