Basic Principles of Typographic Design
We will design our first capital letter, the R
A course by Latinotype , Typographic designers
About the video: We will design our first capital letter, the R
Overview
“In this lesson we know and design the letter R, which will give us a lot of information to build the rest of the alphabet and allow us to understand and combine the aesthetics of uppercase and lowercase. Then we will try it with the lowercase letters and we will see how it behaves. If necessary, we will correct.”
In this video lesson Latinotype addresses the topic: We will design our first capital letter, the R, 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
“In the next lesson work with a beautiful letter, the R will give us a lot of information necessary to work with the rest of the uppercase characters. We started working with the capital letters and the letter R, we are going to create a new page because the one here was filled with the lowercase letters. It is important to check if it matches the reticle, is fine, let's adjust the worktable with the reticle and we will erase these lowercase to have room to start to make our letter R. Well, we bring a flagpole that will be the main one of the R, this module, and we will try with some curves,...”
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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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