Typography for Printed and Digital Projects
Typographic manipulation and styling
A course by Leandro Rodrigues , Graphic Designer and Art Director
Joined March 2020
About the video: Typographic manipulation and styling
Overview
“Now, let's better understand the shape of the letters and their anatomy so that we can play with it and use it to our advantage to pass messages and tell stories. ”
In this video lesson Leandro Rodrigues addresses the topic: Typographic manipulation and styling, which is part of the Domestika online course: Typography for Printed and Digital Projects. Learn to select, combine, and stylize optimal fonts for titles, taglines, and longer texts, as well as design layouts for publications.
Partial transcription of the video
“Typographic manipulation and styling In this lesson, we will learn more about the shape of letters to be able to use it to our advantage when it comes to telling stories and passing on a message. Come on? We need to stop a little longer on the subject of anatomy and the shapes of letters. For example, in these most basic diagrams, we can see, starting here on the left, on top, that the main part of a vertical letter it's the stem. Further to the side, we see that the rounded part of a lowercase A is called the bulge. We already know what a serif is. We can learn that in lowercase G, that da...”
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Course summary for: Typography for Printed and Digital Projects
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Adobe InDesign -
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Editorial Design, Graphic Design, Typography

Leandro Rodrigues
A course by Leandro Rodrigues
Through his extensive professional and academic experience, Leandro Rodrigues combines his passions for graphic design, publishing, and art direction to help bring life and personality to large-scale graphic content and digital projects.
With studies in graphic design and a postgrad degree in Art Direction for Communication from the Centro Universitário SENAC in São Paulo, Leandro has worked for over ten years in publishing and as a professor.
He has held art director and graphic design positions at the publishing house Maquinaria Studio and the digital marketing agency AgMN. He is a visiting Digital Design professor at SENAC São Paulo, as well as a director and art editor for Oeste magazine. Today, he is a Senior Designer in a branding consulting studio.
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