Digital Reinterpretation of Classic Typography
Printed tests
A course by Oscar Guerrero Cañizares , Graphic Designer and Typography Specialist
Joined October 2014
About the video: Printed tests
Overview
“Once we have an acceptable number of glyphs to compose a text, it is necessary to verify its process through printed tests. The screen is very deceiving and we can not trust 100% in it. ”
In this video lesson Oscar Guerrero Cañizares addresses the topic: Printed tests, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Reinterpretation of Classic Typography. Learn the typographic revival method to give a new digital life to ancient fonts.
Partial transcription of the video
“We are about to finish. By now we have the complete alphabet in digital version. However, it is necessary to do additional tests before giving the complete yes to our typography and continue increasing the character set. Before doing the printed tests, we will see some procedure in particular in the program so that we can export our source and proceed to print it. Before starting the process of printed tests, we have to verify that we can generate the source. I have a basic set of uppercase and lowercase letters which we are going to export. We have to check in Font info, that we have revie...”
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Course summary for: Digital Reinterpretation of Classic Typography
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Category
Calligraphy & Typography -
Areas
Digital Design, Typography, Typography Design

Oscar Guerrero Cañizares
A course by Oscar Guerrero Cañizares
Colombian graphic designer and specialist in graduate typography design from the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina). He is currently working as an independent designer in his studio Sumotype Foundry, where he develops typography projects and lettering .
He has participated as a jury for Colombia in the Bienal Tipos Latinos 2016 and has received recognitions such as the Steel Pencil Award in Colombia (2007 and 2014) and the Communication Arts Award 2016, as well as participating in the Latinamerican Biennial of Latin Types 2014 Typography and the Iberoamerican Design Biennial 2014.
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