From the course: Design an Italic Typeface

What this course is (and isn't) - Glyphs App Tutorial

From the course: Design an Italic Typeface

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What this course is (and isn't)

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- [Instructor] This course is about italic typefaces, slope type designs that act as companions to upright, Roman fonts. Italics, like their relatives the bolds, perform an essential typographic of creating emphasis. This course is not about italic handwriting, calligraphy, copper plate lettering, or script lettering. There are many fine stand alone typefaces based on formal penmanship, but they are, for the most part, display typefaces. They're generally not meant to be part of a larger family, and are best suited for setting small amounts of text, and in large sizes. This is an intermediate course. To complete it, you'll need to have a basic working knowledge of type design and font software. If you don't, take some time and study my other courses, Learning Type Design, and Glyphs App Essential Training. And since practice rarely hurts your chances of success, you might also check out Designing a Condensed Sans Serif Typeface. It covers some intermediate font construction techniques using an easy and popular type style. I'll be discussing aspects of the italic style using terminology specific to typography, and aspects of construction specific to typeface design. All of that vocabulary is covered in the introductory courses. Nonetheless, if something is truly obscure, I'll define it again here to be sure we're all on the same page. That's it for the disclaimers. Let's move on to our first order of business, a brief history of the italic form.

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