![]() So when designing, you know that as long as all of your letters’ left sides match up to that height, the letters will all connect. Those tails, if you look close, they all end at the same height. Here’s an example from my Tallsy Smalls Script, converted to outlines so you can see how the letters overlap: the left sides are all flat (or flat-ish), and the right sides all have a tail. ![]() ![]() This is where the right side of the letter ends with a long tail, which then overlaps with the left side of the next letter. I could get all vocabulary-heavy on you with things like terminal and header stroke and exit stroke, but in the interest of keeping things simpler, I’m going to refer to the two ways as: tails and heads/tails.įirst, let’s talk about tails. But generally, there are two major ways to make your letters connect. So let’s remedy that! I’m going to give you a peek into the font I’m working on right now, which is a full connecting script font.įirst off, there are many different techniques for creating connecting letters, and every font designer has their favorite. ![]() In both of my previous posts that talked about making fonts ( Creating a Font from Scratch and What’s Your Process?), the fonts that were created had disconnected letters, so there was no need to do any of the additional technical work involved in creating a script font where all of the letters connect. We’ve done a lot of looking at fonts and discussing them lately, so I figured it was time for another post about creating them. ![]()
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