Designing typefaces with Figma components and plugins
summary
Claim: it's possible to design usable line‑based typefaces inside Figma by treating each glyph as a component and automating spacing with a plugin. The demo uses Figma components, a custom Figma plugin that generates glyph components and spacing strings, and an AxiDraw to plot results (older plotter holds eight pens). The tool outputs editable instances, plots title slides and envelopes successfully, and reduces tedious spacing work while keeping the plotted output hand‑drawn in quality.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:55Pen plotting
- 5:55Resurgence
- 7:00Pen plotting x Lettering
- 9:30Custom Line Lettering
- 11:00Line Based Typefaces
- 12:09Type Design Basics
- 14:34Developing the Figma Plugin
- 15:30Demo
- 20:52Closing
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