Introduction to Designing with Letters

Overview

“In this lesson, I’ll show you the relationships between letter forms and how their shapes relate to one another.”

In this video lesson Abraham Lule addresses the topic: Shape, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Designing with Letters. Explore the concepts and principles of typography to create inspiring designs.

Partial transcription of the video

“Shape In this unit, we'll go over visual concepts. I have divided it in five: shape, space, color, hierarchy, and rhythm. In this lesson, we'll start talking about shape. What is shape? What is it for? And specifically, I'm going to walk you through shape in typography. For these are three different sections. We have regular, irregular and circular shapes. Regular shapes are mostly an E, N, M, U, I. Irregular shapes are mostly going to be an A, F, R, T, Y, Z, and circular shapes by the shape itself, think of an O, Q, D, G and B. Although we have letters that are in between, like the S. A B ...”

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Course summary for: Introduction to Designing with Letters

• Level: Beginner
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• 1115 students
• 5 units
• 19 lessons (2h 13m)
• 1 download

• Category

  Calligraphy & Typography, Design

• Software

  Adobe Illustrator

• Areas

  Branding & Identity, Typography, Typography Design, Web Design