Font Design Courses and Certifications

Create Your Own Font on the iPad

Learn to create your own font using just an iPad and a $5 app in less than an hour. Covers basics of typeface anatomy and font building.

• Skillshare
• 34 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Trial Available

Hand Drawn Typography: Designing a Font from Your Handwriting

Learn to create a unique font from your handwriting in less than an hour. This course covers drawing letters, vectorizing, refining, and generating a font file.

• Skillshare
• 20 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Trial Available

Create Fonts on Your iPad in iFont in a Few Easy Steps + 3 Free Fonts

Learn to create custom fonts on your iPad using iFontMaker in under an hour. No handwriting skills required. Ideal for artists, designers, and hobbyists.

• Skillshare
• 58 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Trial Available

Build a Better Font: An In-Depth Guide To Creating Fonts

Learn how to create a professional font with the help of Jake Bartlett. Jake will show you how to get your charters into Glyphs, correctly space and kern your font, and then test and refine until it’s a perfect font ready to use, sell or share with frien…

• Skillshare
• 1 hour 30 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Trial Available

iPad art: Quick & Easy Fonts - Make hand drawn type on the iPad with iFontMaker

Learn to create simple handwritten fonts on your iPad using a low-cost app, iFontMaker. Suitable for beginners, this course takes less than an hour.

• Skillshare
• 20 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Trial Available

Design a Hand Lettered Font on Your iPad

Learn to design a hand-lettered font on your iPad with Procreate, from planning to selling on Creative Market, in this 1-2 hour Skillshare course.

• Skillshare
• 1 hour 9 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Trial Available

Pen tool for lettering: Vectorising scripts with the pen tool using Affinity Designer

Master the pen tool in Affinity Designer with this 1-2 hour course. Learn to vectorize script lettering, place vector points, and deliver vector files to clients. Ideal for intermediate levels.

• Skillshare
• 1-2 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Trial Available

How to Make Art Printables Using Free Tools

Learn to create digital art printables using free tools, with no prior skills required. The course covers design creation, image resolution adjustment, and watermarking.

• Skillshare
• 2-3 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Trial Available

Design a Hand Drawn Font on Your iPad and Sell on Creative Market

Learn to create and sell your own hand-drawn font on your iPad, with no need for typography or lettering expertise. Course includes basics of font construction, drawing, and selling online.

• Skillshare
• 1 hour 20 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Trial Available

Discover Your Unique Lettering Style - Strategies to Help You Design a Hand Lettered Font

Learn to design your unique hand-lettered font with this 1-2 hour course. Gain practical tips, explore style variations, and discover tools to create digital fonts. No special tools required.

• Skillshare
• 1-2 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Trial Available

Making a Font from scratch in Adobe Illustrator, Fontself and Fontlab

Learn to create a font from scratch using Adobe Illustrator, Fontself, and Fontlab in this 1-2 hour course, covering drawing, kerning, ligatures, and exporting.

• Skillshare
• 1 hour 17 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Trial Available

Creating Fonts with Fontself, Illustrator, and Photoshop

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Get up and running with Fontself Maker, an extension for Illustrator and Photoshop that allows you to quickly create your own unique fonts.

• LinkedIn Learning
• 1-2 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Trial Available

Typography for Designers: Create Fonts for the Marketplace

Learn a simple yet effective research method to produce unique typefaces that communicate your vision

• Domestika
• 1 hour 41 minutes
• On-Demand
• Paid Course

Creating Your First Font with Fontself Maker

Take the first step toward designing your very first font using Fontself Maker, an extension for Illustrator and Photoshop that allows you to quickly create OpenType fonts.

• LinkedIn Learning
• On-Demand
• Free Trial Available

Creating Your First Font with Fontself Maker

Take the first step toward designing your very first font using Fontself Maker, an extension for Illustrator and Photoshop that allows you to quickly create OpenType fonts.

• LinkedIn Learning
• On-Demand
• Free Trial Available