Vectorized Lettering: From Sketch to Screen
Adding Color to Our Lettering
A course by Rebeca Anaya , Designer and Lettering Artist
About the video: Adding Color to Our Lettering
Overview
“I will share some tools that can help you create color palettes, and I will give you some tips on how to add color to your lettering piece. ”
In this video lesson Rebeca Anaya addresses the topic: Adding Color to Our Lettering, 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
“Adding color to our lettering As you may have seen, we have worked on the lettering in one or two colors. This is and very useful because it helps not to be distracted with effects, colors, gradients, nothing. This actually helps us focus only on the shapes that we vector. Also, one piece of advice they gave me is that, if you can do that your piece works only in black and white, it will work much better when adding color. It happens that many times the color or some effects can distract us and we must be honest, we use them to hide details in the form. So it is good that first you focus on...”
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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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