From the course: Learning Type Design
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Print, critique, and revise
The recurring theme in Type Face Design is judge and edit. At each stage in the process, halting progress to analyze what you've done, is essential to creating the best font possible. After digitizing, you can see letters working together as a system. With a complete alphabet, you can truly judge the design and fit of your font by setting sample strings of letters and lists of words that commonly challenge type designers. Here again, you can use adhesion text, or Kern King, or a collection of pangrams. Let's use Kern King. While there's plenty to learn from looking at type on a screen, it pays to print out your samples in various sizes, leaving the computer, and sitting with a pencil and a cup of coffee to critique your work. The coffee is optional, but a thorough critique is a requirement. Make a complete survey of the work before you go back to the computer to edit. Note how the glyphs are or are not working together. Make clear notes of what needs to be corrected. Look at words in…
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