Animated Lettering for GIFs: Boost Your Online Presence
Font Personalities
A course by RYLSEE ☻ , Visual Artist
About the video: Font Personalities
Overview
“Letters are pretty much like humans: they come in different shapes and sizes. Their styles are so diverse and can be combined to create infinite possibilities. Their unique personality conveys much more than just information, and choosing the right font for your project is fundamental when you want to communicate what you are offering to the world. In this lesson, I will teach you how to understand the basics of fonts’ personalities to guide you in choosing the one your project deserves.”
In this video lesson RYLSEE ☻ addresses the topic: Font Personalities, which is part of the Domestika online course: Animated Lettering for GIFs: Boost Your Online Presence. Combine playful lettering with motion graphics to create eye-catching GIFs that stand out on social media.
Partial transcription of the video
“ FONT PERSONALITIES In this lesson, we will explore and try to understand the different personalities that fonts can have. In this example, I took the word "restaurant." Fonts convey a lot of information and not only to people who are sensitive or know about design. For example, I used to do this test with my granny. I was showing her different logos and I was asking her how she feels about them. What I found really interesting is that despite not having any design background, my granny for information grew up in the Swiss mountains, far away from anything artsy or designy, she still had c...”
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Course summary for: Animated Lettering for GIFs: Boost Your Online Presence
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Category
3D & Animation, Calligraphy & Typography -
Software
Adobe Photoshop, Procreate -
Areas
Animation, Digital Lettering, Hand Lettering, Lettering, Typography
RYLSEE ☻
A course by RYLSEE ☻
Cyril Vouilloz, better known as RYLSEE, is a Swiss visual artist and author based in Berlin. He has been drawing for as long as he can remember and turned his childhood hobby into a 20-year career in visual arts. RYLSEE is a freelance designer and one of the founding members of Urban Spree, an arts and music venue in the heart of Berlin. He also runs lettering workshops for individuals, schools, universities, and companies.
RYLSEE has worked with clients including Nike, LinkedIn, and Converse. He has presented at art exhibitions all over the world and a number of his artworks have gained global attention, including his viral “Too Shy to Rap” design. In 2017 RYLSEE published How to Play With Letters, a guide on how to add playful touches to lettering. More recently he has moved into animated design, and his “New Post” Instagram sticker has been used over a billion times on the platform.
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