Lettering: Create Designs with Personality

You’ll learn to create lettering, calligraphy, and custom typography compositions for branding, packaging, and visual identity projects—from hand sketching to professional digital finishing.

This is an intermediate-level course, perfect for those with basic drawing or design skills who want to deepen their knowledge of lettering, calligraphy, and digitization techniques.

You’ll need paper, pencil, brush pens, calligraphy pens, tracing paper, fine liners, a scanner or phone for digitizing, and access to Photoshop and Illustrator for digital editing.

Calligraphy is artistic handwriting, lettering is the custom drawing of letters, and typography is the design of fonts for digital or print use.

You’ll learn how to scan sketches, clean up and vectorize your letters in Photoshop and Illustrator, optimizing nodes and paths to create print-ready or digital-ready artwork.

Yes, the course guides you through creating mood boards and mini briefs to define visual concepts and consistent styles for your typographic projects.

Yes, you’ll learn how to integrate lettering and calligraphy into visual identities, labels, logos, and packaging, adapting styles to fit each project’s needs.

Domestika courses are online classes that allow you to learn new skills and create incredible projects. All our courses include the opportunity to share your work with other students and/or teachers, creating an active learning community. We offer different formats:
Original Courses: Complete classes that combine videos, texts, and educational materials to complete a specific project from start to finish.
Basics Courses: Specialized training where you master specific software tools step by step.
Specialization Courses: Learning paths with various expert teachers on the same topic, perfect for becoming a specialist by learning from different approaches.
Guided Courses: Practical experiences ideal for directly acquiring specific skills.
Intensive Courses (Deep Dives): New creative processes based on artificial intelligence tools in an accessible format for in-depth and dynamic understanding.

All courses are 100% online, so once they're published, courses start and finish whenever you want. You set the pace of the class. You can go back to review what interests you most and skip what you already know, ask questions, answer questions, share your projects, and more.

The courses are divided into different units. Each one includes lessons, informational text, tasks, and practice exercises to help you carry out your project step by step, with additional complementary resources and downloads. You'll also have access to an exclusive forum where you can interact with the teacher and with other students, as well as share your work and your course project, creating a community around the course.

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