Vectorized Lettering: From Sketch to Screen
What Is Lettering and What Is It For?
A course by Rebeca Anaya , Designer and Lettering Artist
About the video: What Is Lettering and What Is It For?
Overview
“In this lesson, we will briefly go over what lettering is and the differences between this art form and others like calligraphy or typography. Later, we will talk a little about what it is for, we will review some projects and examples to understand the great communication power that lettering has. ”
In this video lesson Rebeca Anaya addresses the topic: What Is Lettering and What Is It For?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Vectorized Lettering: From Sketch to Screen. Learn to draw modern, monoline, and brush script lettering with Illustrator.
Partial transcription of the video
“What is lettering and what is it for? Now that we know each other better, let's start to open up a bit about what lettering is. For serving us? How is it used today in many commercial projects and the potential it has as a communication tool. Let's see it. Lettering, broadly speaking, is drawing and perfecting a specific combination of letters, taking into account a message, a unique concept and design features, that is, we are working on a word or a particular phrase and we are worrying about the design of this piece. The design means that we take into account some concepts or very specifi...”
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Course summary for: Vectorized Lettering: From Sketch to Screen
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Category
Calligraphy & Typography -
Areas
Digital Lettering, Graphic Design, Lettering, Typography, Typography Design, Vector Illustration
Rebeca Anaya
A course by Rebeca Anaya
Rebeca Anaya has more than ten years of experience as a graphic designer and lettering artist. Based in Mexico, she works as a freelance artist on lettering and branding projects that revolve around typography.
Throughout her career, she has collaborated with a range of brands including Slack, The Washington Post, El Heraldo de México, Coolhunter and Artsynonym. She is also the founder of Typebasics, an initiative to teach amateur artists and designs from other disciplines about typography.
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