Article · TypeType
UniversiTTy: Lesson 3. Your Future Font Sketches: Technique, Digitization, Testing
By Julia Gonina
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Beginner
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2026
About this lesson
A foundry art director explains sketching letters from skeleton to inked outline on tracing paper, moving into a font editor, and testing the design in real contexts.
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