Practical Font Design: 2nd Edition: Rewritten for FontLab 5

by David Bergsland

This book uses Fontlab 5 to design a new OpenType font of 600+ characters, step by step. The focus is on practical design tips and techniques for those of us who do not like nor want to do coding. The author has been designing fonts since 1994 and has over 100 fonts on the market at Myfonts.com and the Monotype family of sites under the Hackberry Font Foundry banner.

Genres: Design

128 pages, Paperback

First published February 20, 2010

About the author

I've been a compulsive reader since I was eight years old. It's not uncommon for me to read a book or more a day. I became a fine artist during my hippie days from 1967-71. After graduation from U of Minn, I almost immediately got into publishing, first as an illustrator, then as a graphic designer, then a typographer, art director, instructor, program director, author, font designer, online teacher, self-publisher. All the while I did some art, wrote a lot, and kept myself busy.

My main blog and Website is The Skilled Workman which covers resources for publishing books and ebooks with InDesign, plus training for designing fonts.

These days it's primarily a solid food believers site.

The spiritual blog is
Reality Calling which covers my Christian writing and books, plus the books of authors I represent and/or design for.

I sell my fonts at MyFonts.com for the most part, but also at fonts.com

Reviews

[David Bergsland · Rating 4 out of 5]

My best selling book. This one has been radically updated to the Third Edition. You should read that one instead.

[David Bergsland · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the most recent version of my personal best seller at Radiqx Press. It is still selling well and getting a lot of positive feedback.

[David Bergsland · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is my most popular book, by far.