Fonts: Build your Word
Optical laws
A course by Glíglifo , Graphic designers specialized in typefaces
Design a font with the double pencil technique
- Spanish with subtitles in English
- 96% positive reviews (51)
- 1144 students
About the video: Optical laws
Overview
“Optical adjustments needed to please the eye and cheat mathematics.”
In this video lesson Glíglifo addresses the topic: Optical laws, which is part of the Domestika online course: Fonts: Build your Word. Design a font with the double pencil technique.
Partial transcription of the video
“(Music) Well we have already seen the basic forms of the letter where does everything come from a little of how you have to always keep that geometricity in mind And now we are going to fool that geometricity Everything I've told you before is a lie. We are going to trick him for all this to work There are a number of optical laws that we must not continue to the letter because in the end what commands is the eye of the typographer Watch... Do a lot of tests, see that everything works see where to adjust Y and correct. This is a good starting point. but as I say, don't stress with with foll...”
This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.
Course summary for: Fonts: Build your Word
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Category
Calligraphy & Typography -
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Glyphs -
Areas
Graphic Design, Typography, Typography Design
Damià Rotger Miró, (Ferreries, Menorca, 1981) is a graphic designer specialized in typography design. Their types can be purchased at the independent digital foundry Ductile . Diploma in Graphic Design in Palma de Mallorca, postgraduate in Corporate Identity in Elisava (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and Typography «from the creation of the Letter to the Maquetación» in Eina (Autonomous University of Barcelona). He is a professor of typography and editorial design at the Edib school in Palma de Mallorca, organizer of Glíglifo, member of Lletraferits, teaches workshops and conferences on typography and editorial design throughout Spain, is a pioneer in the teaching of typography in the Balearic Islands and is a founding partner of the Dúctil study. He has been a jury in different competitions and his works have been awarded and exhibited all over the world.
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Pedro Arilla (Ejea de los Caballeros, Zaragoza, 1984). Graphic designer specialized in typography design. Their types can be purchased in the independent digital foundry pedroarilla.com . Diploma in Graphic Design by the Higher School of Design of Aragón, author and speaker of the blog and podcast on typography Don [url=http://donserifa.com/] , member of ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale), Some tough guys and Lletraferits, organizer of Glíglifo, disseminator of typography through articles in blogs and magazines and workshops and conferences throughout Spain, speaker of the podcast on design Losing the forms and founding partner of Detalier estudio creativo.
- 96% positive reviews (51)
- 1144 students
- 18 lessons (2h 8m)
- 8 additional resources (5 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: Spanish
- Spanish, English, Portuguese
- Level: Beginner
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