Vintage Lettering: Custom Compositions From Scratch
Styling, Contrast and Weight
A course by Mark van Leeuwen , Lettering Artist and Type Designer
About the video: Styling, Contrast and Weight
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you why contrast matters and how to incorporate it into the composition.”
In this video lesson Mark van Leeuwen addresses the topic: Styling, Contrast and Weight, which is part of the Domestika online course: Vintage Lettering: Custom Compositions From Scratch. Learn the fundamentals of typography to create an original typeform composition by hand and bring it to life in Procreate.
Partial transcription of the video
“Styling, Contrast and Weight Now that we have our skeleton sketch ready, in this lesson, we'll add weight to our letters and decide on which style we're going to go for. The first decision we need to make is deciding on which type of contrast we want to apply to the letter forms. For this project, I'm going with oblique contrast, because I think it will look really well with all these round curves and swirls in the composition. First off, I'm going to lower the opacity on our sketch to use it as a reference, and I'll use the sketching technique we saw in unit 2 to quickly add the oblique co...”
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Course summary for: Vintage Lettering: Custom Compositions From Scratch
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Category
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Areas
Calligraphy, Digital Lettering, Lettering, Typography, Typography Design
Mark van Leeuwen
A course by Mark van Leeuwen
Mark van Leeuwen is an Italian-Dutch freelance lettering artist and type designer based in Berlin, Germany. Over the past decade, he has worked with independent clients, agencies and a number of international businesses, creating logo designs, posters, murals, books and album covers.
His client list includes Cadillac, Etsy, Apple Music, DJ Tiësto, Jägermeister, Harper Collins, Penguin Random House, and Adobe. He has been featured in numerous publications including AIGA Eye On Design, Goodtype: The Art of Lettering, Rizzoli, and Yearbook of Type. He is also the recipient of the CommArts Typography Annual Award, both in 2020 and 2022.
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