Basic Principles of Typographic Design
Groups of letters
A course by Latinotype , Typographic designers
About the video: Groups of letters
Overview
“In this video we explain the 3 groups of letters that we need to distinguish to start designing an alphabet. In addition, with what letters to begin and why begin with those letters, as well as the groups of square, round and triangular letters and how they relate to each other.”
In this video lesson Latinotype addresses the topic: Groups of letters, which is part of the Domestika online course: Basic Principles of Typographic Design. Learn to create your own modular alphabet with Adobe Illustrator.
Partial transcription of the video
“Next we will distinguish three groups of letters associated with geometric shapes to design our alphabet. To optimize the work we are going to group the letters due to its geometric shape, we have already seen that in other examples It helped us a lot to work with geometric shapes. We are going to use these three groups, the letters that are inscribed inside the square, like n, it has many derivatives and there are letters that we can get from this, their shapes are very similar and therefore, when we have that making the space between letters will be very similar with letters like h, i, u,...”
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Course summary for: Basic Principles of Typographic Design
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Category
Calligraphy & Typography -
Software
Adobe Illustrator -
Areas
Advertising, Design, Graphic Design, Typography, Typography Design
Latinotype
A course by Latinotype
Latinotype, founded by Luciano Vergara and Daniel Hernández, is the first typesetting foundry in Chile. Founded in 2011, today has a team of design, management and marketing team formed by professionals from different parts of the world, in addition to a score of national and international partners. With more than 8 years of experience, today they are leaders in the retail market, developing projects used by major brands worldwide.
You can find his work in international publications such as Yearbook of Type, from Germany; Character Latino, of Spain; Design magazine UC or Slanted magazine, among others. In addition, they have given workshops and talks in Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala and Uruguay.
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