Typography Design: Digitize Your Handwriting
Improving spacing
A course by Cristóbal Henestrosa , Graphic Designer
Joined July 2019
Joined July 2019
About the video: Improving spacing
Overview
“We are approaching the final stretch! All that remains is to tweak the general spacing and work on kerning, which is telling your font to change the spacing between glyphs for certain combinations of glyphs. I will explain it all to you in this lesson.”
In this video lesson Cristóbal Henestrosa addresses the topic: Improving spacing, 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
“Improving spacing Kerning or coupling is an exception to the general spacing. Normally it shouldn't be overused. The overall spacing is assumed will solve 90% of the problems, but there are some particularly difficult combinations where kerning is very useful. Particularly in capital letters. So it's something you should know to make your font look its best. Now we will see how this part of your font can be worked on. Here's a scan of the print tests from the file we saw in the previous section. Before going any further, by the way, I would like to tell you about an unexpected error What ha...”
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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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