Retro American Lettering: Discover the Interlock Style
The choice of color palette 1
A course by Francis Chouquet , Lettering Artist and Typographer
About the video: The choice of color palette 1
Overview
“In this lesson, we'll see how to choose a color palette that matches what we want to do with our project. I'm going to start from the “Inspiration” mood board that I had created, and I'm going to use it to choose three palettes: a restricted color palette, a more modern palette, and my favorite palette. I will then experiment with each of them.”
In this video lesson Francis Chouquet addresses the topic: The choice of color palette 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Retro American Lettering: Discover the Interlock Style. Create a unique poster with striking compositions by exploring hand lettering techniques in Procreate.
Partial transcription of the video
“Choosing the color palette In this lesson we will choose the color palette which we will use on the final project. To do this, I will go to the inspiration moodboard that I created on Pinterest. In this moodboard, we have both contemporary works and period works. Period work used a limited color palette because they were often screen printed, so it was passages of different colors. So it was better to work with a limited color palette. On more contemporary works, we use palettes that are a little more pop and bright and sometimes it can be interesting to mix a retro effect with a modern col...”
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Course summary for: Retro American Lettering: Discover the Interlock Style
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Category
Calligraphy & Typography -
Software
Procreate -
Areas
Digital Lettering, Hand Lettering, Lettering, Poster Design

Francis Chouquet
A course by Francis Chouquet
After a career in web design and evening classes in art school, Francis Chouquet finally started lettering, an art form he has been passionate about since he was young.
One meeting with artist Ken Barber and a few strokes of the pencil later, he found himself working for Adobe and Fontself, as well as surfing clubs, for whom he designed many logos and posters.
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