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Amadís15939492
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September 30, 2017
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Which apps do professional designers use to create typography?

  • September 30, 2017
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I am completely new to Adobe software and I would like to know which apps do experts recommend to create professional typography. I thank you in advance for your time.

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    Brainiac
    January 8, 2018

    If you want to create special letters and use them occasionally, you can make them as vectors in Illustrator. This is in fact how most type designers start, combining the shapes into a fonts later after worrying about typographic consistency, kerning, ligatures, baselines, oversetting, accents, encoding, hints, file formats, font families and many other highly expert concepts. Few people do this, the market is far too small for Adobe to enter.

    Amadís15939492
    Inspiring
    October 5, 2017

    I mean designing fonts.

    kglad
    Adobe Expert
    October 5, 2017
    New Participant
    March 6, 2020

    No, Adobe does not produce any such exceptionally-specialized software for font design and creation.

              - Dov


    Hi there Dov, I am fully subscribed to adobe creative cloud and also wondered if there is a font / typeface building programme. Not only for vector based font building / control of alphabet, width, kerning, leading etc. But also an app that places letters into a usable and typeable typeface? Can you suggest one if so? 

    Brainiac
    October 5, 2017

    By typography do you mean

    (a) putting text on a page

    (b) designing a font?

    If it's (a) and there is more text than a little, and it isn't a technical manual, Adobe InDesign.

    kglad
    Adobe Expert
    September 30, 2017