Typography Concepts for the Screen

Hinting and anti-aliasing

A course by Gemma Busquets , Designer

100% positive reviews (144)

2,487 students

Audio: Spanish

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About the video: Hinting and anti-aliasing

Overview

“Understanding concepts such as hinting and anti-aliasing will help us better understand how typography is rendered in a pixel grid. ”

In this video lesson Gemma Busquets addresses the topic: Hinting and anti-aliasing, which is part of the Domestika online course: Typography Concepts for the Screen. Learn to work and choose the perfect typography for any digital project.

Partial transcription of the video

“Introduction to screen typography Lesson 6 Hinting and anti-aliasing In this lesson we will see how the typography is rendered once we have it on a grid of pixels. We will also see what "hinting" and "anti-aliasing" consist of. I show you now. Typeface designers work with Bézier curves. These vector curves are mathematical formulas that describe the perfect lines and curves that form a letter. These curves have a good translation on paper, where we can print at a high resolution. The screens are composed of pixels. When we work in digital formats, at some point vectors, with which the lette...”

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Course summary for: Typography Concepts for the Screen

Level: Beginner
100% positive reviews (144)
2487 students
5 units
23 lessons (2h 23m)
3 downloads

Category
Calligraphy & Typography
Areas
Information Design, Typography

Gemma Busquets

A course by Gemma Busquets

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Designer

Gemma Busquets is a freelance graphic designer and art director based in Barcelona, Spain with more than 10 years of experience. Throughout her career, she has had the opportunity to collaborate with major brands such as Dell, Novartis, San Miguel, HuffPost, Coca-Cola, Nike, Rosetta Stone, Peugeot, InfoJobs, and Puig, among others. She has also been a judge at the ADG Laus Awards for Graphic Design and Visual Communication, specifically evaluating projects in the digital category.

She currently combines her work with teaching at the BAU, Barcelona University Design Center, Spain, as art director of the final projects in the Postgraduate Program in Digital Editions, and professor in the Master's in Infographics and Data Visualization, which she also directs and coordinates.