From the Lettering to the Font

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Course overview

Provider
Domestika
Course type
Paid course
Level
Intermediate
Deadline
Flexible
Duration
2 hours
Lessons
18 lessons
Certificate
Available on completion
Course author
Type-Ø-Tones

Many of the signs that we find on the street or in the advertising of yesteryear and that fascinate us are those that are well drawn, originally by hand. And it is because they underlie a coherent application of basic rules essential for design of letters and that determine their structure, appearance and the relationship between them.

In this course, with the typographers Josema Urós and Laura Meseguer (Type-Ø-Tones), you will learn to analyze "found" labels, deconstruct them and create new characters to generate your own labels, marks or even a complete alphabet.

Description

Create your own alphabet based on a found lettering

You will start discovering the work of Laura and Josema, their work environment, the tools necessary to carry out the course and how to use them.

Next, you will learn the basic principles of alphabets design using the label as one of the possible sources of inspiration for type design. In this review by the methodology of the letters you will know the flow of production, the vertical metric, the basic forms, the interior space and the optical adjustments.

Later you will make the analog sketching of your own alphabet by contour. Once you have it digitized, you will take it to Illustrator to turn it into vectorial drawing.

To finish you will learn how to draw unique or special characters, create uppercase and give the final adjustments to your final project.

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