Typography Design: Digitize Your Handwriting
Basic definitions
A course by Cristóbal Henestrosa , Graphic Designer
Joined July 2019
Joined July 2019
About the video: Basic definitions
Overview
“Handwriting, calligraphy, typography, and lettering all involve using letters, but not in the same way. Find out with me the difference between all of them in this lesson.”
In this video lesson Cristóbal Henestrosa addresses the topic: Basic definitions, which is part of the Domestika online course: Typography Design: Digitize Your Handwriting. Discover how to turn your handwriting into a unique digital typeface that adds character and personal style to your writing pieces.
Partial transcription of the video
“Basic definitions Typography is writing with prefabricated letters because they already exist, they are inside the computer and you activate it when you press a key. Instead, handwriting does not exist but until you pick up an instrument and write with it. Let's say it exists in real time. There is a paradigm in your head of how it should look, but you won't know how it turns out until you do. For this reason, typography offers possibilities of use and reproduction that the manual letter does not have and that is why it is in the interest that your handwriting become typography. I think tha...”
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Course summary for: Typography Design: Digitize Your Handwriting
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Design, Graphic Design, Typography, Typography Design
Cristóbal Henestrosa
A course by Cristóbal Henestrosa
Cristóbal Henestrosa specializes in typography and book design. He has developed font families for clients such as the Fondo de Cultura Económica, Librerías Gandhi, and the Federal Government of Mexico, some of which have won awards from the Type Directors Club and have been selected for the Latin American typography biennial Tipos Latinos.
He is the author of Espinosa. Rescate de una tipografía novohispana (Mexico, Designio, 2005) and co-author of Cómo crear tipografías. Del boceto a la pantalla (Madrid, Tipo E, 2012), which has been translated into English, Polish, Portuguese, and Chinese. Since 2011 he has been teaching typography and type design at the Faculty of Arts and Design of the UNAM, as well as related subjects in diploma courses, specialties, and master's degrees in various institutions.
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