Learn to Make Your Own Fonts with These 10 Courses

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Making your own fonts is a great way to be creative and earn a little extra income. However, many people are limited by the thought that they need to take in-person graphic design classes in order to create a font of their own. We've got great news: you can learn to make your own font from the comfort of your couch by taking some great online courses. If you want to know more about which courses to take, check out the list of 10 below.

1. Hand-Drawn Typography: Create Your Own Font

This Hand-Drawn Typography course on Skillshare by Kyle Steed is a great class for anyone who wants to turn handwriting into a font. The course will show you how to create a font by hand, then turn it into a vector file that can be used by others.

2. How to Digitize Hand-Drawn Art

On CreativeLive, James Victore and Laura Victore present a course on How to Digitize Hand-Drawn Art, which is an excellent class for anyone who wants to turn hand-drawn typography into a font.

3. Creating Custom Fonts

Mike Ranking brings you Creating Custom Fonts on Lynda.com. Check it out if you are interested in generating a unique and original font to share with the world. The course also teaches students about the technical specifics behind different types of fonts such as TrueType, OpenType and PostScript.

4. Creating Fonts in InDesign

Anyone who is a fan of InDesign will want to take this Creating Fonts in InDesigncourse from Mike Rankin, which is also on Lynda.com. It will show you how to use your favorite program to generate original fonts.

5. Paper to Digital: Create Your Own Hand Drawn Font

Another great course on Skillshare for people interested in transforming their hand-drawn lettering into a digital typeface is Jennifer Coyle's course, Paper to Digital: Create Your Own Hand Drawn Font. If you happen to fall in love with Jenn's work, like we did, make sure to check out her Creative Market shop.

6. How to Make Your Own Font: Mac & PC

For a simple step-by-step guide to creating your own font on Mac or PC, check out this YouTube tutorial from todlovescheese. She walks you through the process of creating a font in her clear and easy-to-understand video.

7. How to Design Your Own Typeface

Creative Bloq has a useful online guide to creating your own font. It's called How to Design Your Own Typeface, and it offers thorough written instructions to design fonts via a myriad of platforms.

8. Design Your Own Fonts: From Paper to Screen

Natanael Gama, a professional type designer, brings you a great course calledDesign Your Own Fonts: From Paper to Screen via SkillShare, where you can learn to transform any hand-drawn typeface into a font file.

9. Designing a Typeface

Interested in the actual art of designing a typeface, the psychology behind lettering and spacing, and the actual aesthetics of the art form? Then this Designing a Typeface class on Lynda.com is a great choice for you.

10. Creating Icon Fonts for the Web

If you are interested in designing a font using symbols and glyphs, take this course from Lynda.com called Creating Icon Fonts for the Web.

Ready to sell your font?

Creating your own fonts is a great way to get a foot in the door of the design world, and it's also a valuable skill set to have when looking for a job or hoping to earn a side income. Luckily you don't have to pay a lot of tuition money to learn how. Dive into any of these courses, and you could be making one of Creative Market's best-selling fonts in no time!

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6 Beautiful Colours 2016

6 Beautiful Color Trends of 2016

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Keeping up with the latest design trends involves looking at how color is being used in advertising, print, art, fabrics, decor, fashion, and many other fascinating spaces. In this article, I'll look at six beautiful color trends inspired by creative movements spotted in various industries. Regardless of where the trend first emerged, these might spark just the right kind of vibrant ideas that your next project needs.

1. Pastels

Dreamy, milky and soft, pastels aren’t just for nursery rooms anymore. Pastels have grown up and become sophisticated. Pantone’s colors of the year, Rose Quartz and Serenity, have already made their way into advertising for banking, cosmetics and tech. Have you seen Spotify’s beautiful “Year in Music”? Ephemera is a pastel palette that expands into yellow, orchid, peach for a wider range of pastels.

Spotify's color palette

Pantone's colors of the year: Rose Quartz and Serenity

2. Vibrant, Bold Colors

Bright, punchy and bold colors that fit in with the 80s/90s retro trend. Retro-inspired palettes with popping bright colors bring a lot of energy to your creative project. This fun palette draws inspiration from the Memphis Group, and their postmodern, rebellious, playful and asymmetrical designs. Retro is youthfully remixed with splashes of acid bright colors colliding with muddier colors and romantic pastels. Take a look at painter Sonia Delaunay’s work to find inspiration for fearless color combinations!

After its 1981 debut, Memphis dominated the early 1980s design scene with its post-modernist style. Image via Design Museum.

Memphis patterns by Camille Walala via Dezeen

Sonia Delaunay or Robert Delaunay (or both), 1922. Public domain image.

3. Blue

Blue will continue to be a trending color in 2016. Ocean blues reflect a relaxing palette and our connection to nature. This year International Klein Blue is on the rise too. International Klein Blue (IKB) is a rich blue hue mixed by the French artist Yves Klein — it is perfect for intense accents. Underwater patterns and shadows come into play. Tiles, denim, and batik. Peacock blue. The richness of the color blue makes it easy to create a variety of palettes that give your projects a professional look. Create a palette that reflects the seaside, with shades of blue and a sandy neutral or a crisp white.

Mixed media painting titled L'accord Bleu, 1960 by Yves Klein. Via Wikimedia Commons.

4. Monochromatic or Limited

Limited color palettes stand the test of time. Simple, minimal and elegant color schemes where all the colors come from a single hue. Or combining black, white and grey. These color palettes are timeless and powerful because they help create focus in a visually oversaturated environment.

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5. Opulent Indoors

In the home decor market we’ll find dark, deep walls contrasted with accents that glimmer with decadent metal. Think of heirlooms, intricate, and detailed craftsmanship. Think steampunk. Velvet, marble and pink copper. As we move fast into the future, we look for reassurance from our past. A contemporary twist on our heritage, this is maximalism. In graphic design we can see this trend in rich art deco and gold foil treatments, it’ll be interesting to see if this trend expands. It makes a huge contrast to the minimalist trends.

The Palmetto collection from Harlequin. Via Decor Supplies.

6. Outer Space

Dark blues and teals, juxtaposed with electric pink, coral, red, reflect our space explorations. Let yourself be inspired by space, sci-fi, and David Bowie. Nebulas. Let yourself be inspired by the 2015 Valentino couture collection, with constellations and planets in motion. Futuristic, celestial dreams with impressions of weightlessness. Pops of electric neon colors!

Valentino. Image via Popsugar.

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