Creating your own typography

Digitization

A course by Wete , Graphic Designer and Typography Artist

Learn to design your own typeface and create graphic artwork with personality

Spanish with subtitles in English
98% positive reviews (167)
3663 students

About the video: Digitization

Overview

“We see different methods to digitize our sketches and we learn the basic tools to start a type in Illustrator and pass it to Glyphs.”

In this video lesson Wete addresses the topic: Digitization, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creating your own typography. Learn to design your own typeface and create graphic artwork with personality.

Partial transcription of the video

“WETE Digitization We have our sketches ready. In this lesson we will see some concepts about digitization that will help us to draw our typography correctly in Illustrator. Let's see. Digitization It is very important to digitize our typography well, since a good sketch poorly digitized will result in a bad typography. Depending on the shape of our font, we will use Glyphs or Illustrator. Consider that when we talk about typography, we are talking about a vector drawing. So Glyphs and Illustrator can be useful tools when designing our lyrics. For a modular or geometric typeface the idea is ...”

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Course summary for: Creating your own typography

Level: Intermediate
98% positive reviews (167)
3663 students
6 units
24 lessons (2h 55m)
12 downloads

Category
Calligraphy & Typography
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Glyphs
Areas
Design, Graphic Design, Typography, Typography Design

Wete

A course by Wete

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Graphic Designer and Typography Artist

Juanra, better known as Wete, is a graphic designer specialized in typography. After working for various studios in Barcelona, he decided to carve out his own path and focus on what he loved most: typography. With that goal in mind, he founded his own studio, and alongside several friends, he created Ultra Types, a small online type foundry that specializes in display typefaces with a unique approach that sets it apart from larger type foundries.

He has worked on projects for top brands like Adobe, HP, Reebok, Desigual, W Hotels, and Mobile World Congress, among others. His work has also been featured in The Complete Guide to Designing Handmade Type by Charlotte Rivers, Page Unlimited (Sandu 360 Japan), Typodarium, Étapes, Computer Arts, and many more.

Spanish with subtitles in English