Typography Design: Digitize Your Handwriting
Picking the best
A course by Cristóbal Henestrosa , Graphic Designer
Joined July 2019
Joined July 2019
About the video: Picking the best
Overview
“Now, I will show you how to photograph or scan your handwritten text and I will explain some criteria to choose the most suitable letters to be digitized.”
In this video lesson Cristóbal Henestrosa addresses the topic: Picking the best, 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
“Picking the best Ready, here are my exercises. They are two leaves nothing more. In the first is the prologue of "Ethics for Amador", and in the second it is the continuation of the same and the pangrams and the NATO alphabet with a few other little words out there. Here the quotes, the asterisks, the parentheses, the numbers, some ampersands. I even put my signature here. Icons. Again the NATO alphabet to have more support. Punctuation. And the diacritics of Spanish. We will scan them. and the rest of the process will be already on the computer. To put the image of your text to the compute...”
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Course summary for: Typography Design: Digitize Your Handwriting
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Calligraphy & Typography -
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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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