FontLab Studio Tutorials

FontLab Studio tutorials

FontLab Studio video tutorials

A short overview video of FontLab Studio 5 (no sound):

Use the Google video search to find online video tutorials for FontLab Studio.

Here's a new video by JoKKeSvin that introduces FontLab Studio.
Here's how to draw glyphs in Illustrator and then use them in FontLab Studio.
Go Media also did one on that same subject.
How to make ligatures in FontLab Studio!
Here is his take on kerning classes - and a follow up .
Alec Julien posted three videos on Vimeo . One on automatic ligatures, one on discretionary ligatures and one on kerning classes.
Here's a cool glyph editing video by Almas.
And another!
And yet another !!
Jay Hilgert has a great flick on how to use the PREVIEW window.
Tipocracia's video of people making fonts
Click the links below to run Flash viewlets that demonstrate features and applications of FontLab.

FontLab Introduction | The Font Table | VectorPaint Tools | Glyph Editing | Metrics |Transformations |Download and Install |

A tutorial on making a typeface using Illustrator and FontLab Studio by Jesse Hora Dot Com - in three parts: Part 2 , Part 3.
Here is a tutorial of How to Make a Hand-Drawn Font by bittbox.
And here's one about how to make a GUI Icon Font.
And an extensive blog tutorial for newbies.
Using Illustrator to draw fonts for importing into FontLab by Sigurdur Armannsson.
Autohinting with FontLab Studio by Adam Twardoch.
Click here to download our package (~6.6 MB) of PowerPoint presentations on various aspects of FontLab.

Excellent Type Workshop by Underware, with a great references section that gives further links for great places to learn type design, font making, and FontLab Studio.
Notes on Type Design by Gunnlaugur SE Briem.
by Jonathan Hoefler.
Type Design How-to by Chank.
Hand lettering basics.
Sketching type by LettError.
Type Design Books on Typophile.