Digital Lettering for Beginners

Color, spacing and kerning

A course by Sindy Ethel , Designer specialized in lettering

Designer specialized in lettering. New York, United States.
Joined December 2016
97% positive reviews (174)
3,560 students
Audio: Spanish
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About the video: Color, spacing and kerning

Overview

“We will see what color is in typography, the definition and differences between spacing and kerning , and finally through a practical example we will review the relationship between these two variables and how they are related to color.”

In this video lesson Sindy Ethel addresses the topic: Color, spacing and kerning, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Lettering for Beginners. Learn how to draw stylish letters by using Photoshop and Illustrator.

Partial transcription of the video

“Unit 2 Color, spacing and kerning Now we will talk about other typographic elements such as color, spacing and kerning. We won't talk about color as if something is green or something is blue, but rather of the space occupied by a letter, but let's see more detail in the lesson. The color is not as is the color palette, but rather it refers to the distribution of mass, so to speak, in a word or a letter. What we see black is going to be the positive space and what is white is the negative space. A letter or a word is shaped so much by what we can see like what we can't see Thin letters usua...”

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Course summary for: Digital Lettering for Beginners

  • Level: Beginner
  • 97% positive reviews (174)
  • 3560 students
  • 6 units
  • 24 lessons (3h 42m)
  • 16 downloads
  • Category

    Calligraphy & Typography
  • Software

    Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
  • Areas

    3D Lettering, Digital Design, Digital Lettering, Lettering

Sindy Ethel

Sindy Ethel
A course by Sindy Ethel

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Designer specialized in lettering

Native designer from Monterrey (Mexico) specialized in lettering and illustration. Her passion for drawing led her to study Graphic Design at the Faculty of Visual Arts of the Autonomous University of Nuevo León (Mexico).

He currently works for Hello Monday in New York (USA), has worked for brands such as Adobe, Google, Coca Cola, Pepsi or Volkswagen among others, and for agencies such as Grupo W and Vault49 in NY.


  • 97% positive reviews (174)
  • 3,560 students
  • 24 lessons (3h 42m)
  • 33 additional resources (16 files)
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  • Audio: Spanish
  • Spanish · English · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch · Turkish · Romanian · Indonesian
  • Level: Beginner
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Digital Lettering for Beginners. Calligraphy, and Typography course by Sindy Ethel

Digital Lettering for Beginners

A course by Sindy Ethel
Designer specialized in lettering. New York, United States.
Joined December 2016
  • 97% positive reviews (174)
  • 3,560 students