Making Connected Script Fonts. Font Lab Studio 5 tutorial with Laura Worthington

Laura Worthington is one of the most popular script font designers out there. From megafamilies Adorn and Charcuterie to oneshots Al Fresco, Alana and Samantha, she s a master of a difficult form of type design: connected script fonts. In this tutorial, she teaches you how you can master the design and production of calligraphic fonts using FontLab Studio 5: the basic calligraphic forms, letter connections, entrance and exit strokes, optical corrections, contextual alternates as OpenType Layout features,