Introduction to Custom Lettering
How to vectorize your lettering 2
A course by Cyla Costa , Lettering Artist, Designer, and Illustrator
About the video: How to vectorize your lettering 2
Overview
“In this other part of the lesson, following the same technique, I will vectorize the second word of the lettering leaving everything ready for printing.”
In this video lesson Cyla Costa addresses the topic: How to vectorize your lettering 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Custom Lettering. Learn how to create expressive letters in your own signature style by combining manual and digital techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“How to vectorize your lettering The vectorial construction of the first word, Golden, is done. I will save. I see that there is a lot to fix, but I will leave it to the evaluation stage. I’ll go to the second word, Slumbers, following the same technique. I'll see the overlays later. I will follow the same technique, start from a cusp point, without thinking about the perpendicular C loop. I go there to the extreme top point, the extreme left point, from the right, from the bottom. Here, too, I have this overlap that I will see later. I press Alt to change the direction of the curve. Left ex...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Custom Lettering
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Category
Calligraphy & Typography -
Areas
Digital Lettering, Hand Lettering, Lettering
Cyla Costa
A course by Cyla Costa
Cyla Costa graduated with a degree in graphic design from the UFPR and continued her studies in illustration, typography, and editorial design in Barcelona (EINA and Elisava) and New York (Cooper Union); she has over a decade of experience in lettering and founded her own creative studio.
Her work can be found in all kinds of advertising and publishing projects for a host of big-name companies including Google, Nestlé, Coca-Cola, Penguin Random House, Nissan and Kimberly-Clark. Cyla was also awarded certificates of Excellence in Typography by the Type Directors Club in 2016, 2017, and 2019.
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