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How to make awesome font

A simple guide to make successful font on the internet era.

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How to make awesome font

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  1. HOW TO MAKE AWESOME FONT A simple guide to make successful font on the internet era. A Short Ebook ByDaily Webfonts

  2. TABLE OF CONTENTS • Introduction • Write your own handwriting • Sans-serif Family is awesome • A Thin font • Converts to Webfont • Conclusion

  3. Introduction Today, font or typeface is the one of important element in a website, the fonts originally used and growing by printing industry such as magazine and newspaper, but nowadays in the internet era font is a very important element in website and used on all devices. Now all websites can use any font. All users or visitors can render the font without having to install on their devices. The beauty of fonts will make users or website’s visitors happy; imagine that Google, Facebook, Twitter, CNN, etc, using Comic Sans. That’s horrible, so make an ugly font is not a wise option for you today. How a typographer can make an awesome font and how to make everyone will accept simply beauty font? It was not easy. It took a lot of inspiration, so that our font accepted by public and used as masterpiece. For the examples, internet marketers will love to use a wide variety of fonts on their landing pages, they choose the best and the most unique font for their landing pages. By choosing beautiful font, they believe that it will also increase their sales conversion. As well as the online magazine publisher, they have to find and sort out a good font. As I said before, Imagine if all magazines only uses Comic Sans or Times New Roman. It will make a big impact, and they will lose their new customers / readers. If a typographer does not make a good concept, then we can be sure that the font will not used, and who will use their ugly fonts anyway? Therefore, this ebook is for all beginners who want to make a beautiful and awesome font. Thanks for reading this e-book.

  4. Write your own handwriting Are you remembering when you were little kid? Learn to spell and write the alphabets, it is very enjoyable moments in our life. Then why as adults we forget to enjoy our life? There is nothing wrong about our feeling of the past (childhood), keep that feeling, and take inspiration from that moment, so when we want to create new font, imagine the moments when you were kid, learns, how to make your own handwriting attractive, more and more. Spend 5 minutes a day for a week. One of the most successful typographer today is MånsGrebäck, almost of all his fonts are the handwritten type. So, if you’ve mastered this method, you’ll be addicted to continue making handwritten font. Discovers a new shape is very fun. Here are examples of successful of free handwritten font.

  5. Sans-serif Family is awesome Do you know BebasNeue font? Yup, that font really awesome right? What is the difference between Arial, Calibri, or Helvetica? Hmm, we can’t sure. Sans-serif family is the best font-family today, because people usually read an article or ebook using mobile phone or tablet before they going to bed. Sans family is certainly used on articles, people want to read it, and their eyes never tired. Make sans-serif font type is very difficult, but if you success, your fonts are always become a legend font. Yet, if you are not sure how to make a sans-serif font type please don’t do it, you should make handwritten type instead.

  6. A Thin font One of current trends in the web era is a thin font, the aim is when rendering the web page it does not take a long time, and very fast. If we talks about requirement of a good website, it’s fast loading website. When rendering a page at the first time, website must not load heavily, it is public secret, all webmaster knew it, and it has become a webmaster’s rule when they making website. So, please make a light font and easy to read. Do not make a font with odd shapes that are difficult to read. A thin font is highly preferred by the most of web designers, because the trend in 2013 one of which is a flat design, flat design and thin design is like yin and yang, most of all web designers were applied it on their work.

  7. Converts to Webfont As I said in the introduction, today font can used and rendered on all devices, but you must convert it into a web font first, webfont format is usually EOT, WOFF and SVG. Webfont is web standardization format for font, all modern bdrowsers only read those formats, but in the future maybe all format will supported. FYI, one of the best software to convert fonts (TTF) to webfont (EOT, WOFF, svg) is WFC (WebFont Converter). After that submit your fonts to our site Daily Webfonts website (DailyWF).

  8. Conclusion Making a font will makes you happy, but before you designs a font, please get a good concept first. At the end, your font will be by public (media, magazine, etc). Some people say, believe in your imagination, yeah it’s true, so, never copy other people’s concepts, and you must create your own. Being a designer, web designer or typographer was not easy. We must have ability to see the current market’s trends. What they want and why they want it. Do not make font because profit and money, profit only can follow your masterpiece. Make an awesome font and people will respect your masterpieces.

  9. Credits A presentation by http://www.dailywf.com How to make awesome font by Daily Webfonts [www.dailywf.com]

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