How to Choose Fonts
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Course overview
- Provider
- Domestika
- Course type
- Paid course
- Level
- Beginner
- Deadline
- Flexible
- Duration
- 3 hours
- Lessons
- 17 lessons
- Certificate
- Available on completion
- Course author
- Enric Jardí
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Enric Jardí is a Graphic Designer, expert in typography and Editorial Design. In this course you will learn how, why and in what way to choose the most appropriate fonts for your projects. Enric will explain how to work with them, showing you the most common mistakes made when using them and how to avoid them.
You will learn to use the letters, not to design them. Enric will teach you to look at them in a new way, without long lists about their parts and classifications, but understanding their origin and why they are so, knowing the reasons for choosing them, how to combine them, how to get them and manage them.
You will become an expert selecting fonts from A to Z.
Description
You will start knowing a little more about the work and the influences of Enric Jardí.
Then you will learn to analyze a text understanding how it is done and if you can manipulate it distinguishing if the text is editable.
Then you will learn the key concepts about readability, uppercase, lowercase, large and small texts. You will discover the different typographic families that exist and you will get into the history of 20th century letters and the characters of the alphabet. In addition, Enric will spend some time explaining the best types for paper and screen.
At this point, you will know what "tells us" each typography as observers, how to combine them, work in OpenType and tips to avoid. Before finishing, you will also see several real works and you will know some practical and legal considerations about the management of sources in your computer that will come to you very well for your professional day to day.
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