Crafting Custom Lettering and Fonts with Photoshop

Don’t limit your type choices to the font menu! In this session, you’ll learn how to create expressive, custom lettering and DIY fonts directly inside Photoshop using hand-drawn, painted, or otherwise found letterforms. We’ll explore how to capture your lettering, refine it with Photoshop’s tools, and turn it into flexible typographic assets you can reuse across projects—even in InDesign and other apps! Along the way, you’ll develop a greater appreciation for font design and all that goes into a well-crafted font. This session is perfect for designers with a love for fonts—and the curiosity to explore creating their own.

Takeaways:

• Techniques for creating custom lettering and DIY fonts in Photoshop
• Tips for consistency, spacing, and reuse across designs
• Several different routes to bring your very own fonts to life
• New ways to think about typography as a creative, hands-on process
• Learn how you can also build vector fonts in Adobe Illustrator