In this, Part 3 of my Fontlab Studio video series, I will be showing you exactly how to make ligatures. Ligatures are a great way to automatically combine one or more characters into a single glyph, making your font more versatile and feature rich. Ligatures are important because of the way certain letters fit together, and I want to show you how to make your own. Fontlab Studio is a very robust program, and the steps involved in getting ligatures to work, aren’t immediately apparent, so I’m going to share what I’ve learned so far…
Fontlab Studio – Part 3: Ligatures from Jay Hilgert on Vimeo.
In this (requested) video tutorial, I will go over how to edit multiple text boxes across a multi-artboard Illustrator document. This allows you to edit the text once and change it on all corresponding artboards in your Illustrator document, saving you loads of time. :)
Illustrator: Edit Multiple Text Boxes at Once from Jay Hilgert on Vimeo.
This is part 1 of a continuing series I’ll be producing about how to use Fontlab Studio to create fonts, from start to finish. It’s been a challenge to learn Fontlab because it’s a very robust software, so I’m passing along everything I learn, as I learn it to help those interested in making their own fonts.
Creating a Font in Fontlab – Part 1 from Jay Hilgert on Vimeo.
This is a very simple tip for the Illustrator user interface to center your artboard on your screen. It’s marked “101″ for a reason…
I’ve got a super-useful Illustrator tip today. How to align to a “key object.” This is my first HD video, so it’s best viewed in full screen mode. I hope this tip saves some people a little headache
Illustrator: Align to Key Object [HD] from Jay Hilgert on Vimeo.
This is a brief overview of the Fontlab Studio 5 Preview Panel. Please let me know if you would like more Fontlab tutorials in the comments :)
Fontlab Studio 5: The Preview Panel from Jay Hilgert on Vimeo.
Last week I gave away some vector grunge and I’m here to show you how I made those shapes. In this video, we will be using Illustrator and a plugin called Scriptographer to achieve organic vector grunge textures, useful in a myriad of applications. Let’s get started.
Illustrator: How to Make Vector Grunge from Jay Hilgert on Vimeo.


