From the Lettering to the Font
The spacing
A course by Type-Ø-Tones , Typography designers
About the video: The spacing
Overview
“The time has come to explain the importance of spacing.”
In this video lesson Type-Ø-Tones addresses the topic: The spacing, which is part of the Domestika online course: From the Lettering to the Font. Create your own alphabet based on a found lettering.
Partial transcription of the video
“[Music] In this lesson we're going to see how to space our characters. Well, the theme of spacing is so Important, like the design of the letters themselves, in the sense that you can have a well-designed typeface, but if it is badly spaced it does not work, and also in this way you can have a typeface, which is pretty much say normal at the design level, but it has an optimal spacing, and fulfills its function perfectly. Then, depending on the design of your exercise the spacing will work one way or another, in our model this typeface that you are seeing an Egyptian with pretty serifs fini...”
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Course summary for: From the Lettering to the Font
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Category
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Areas
Graphic Design, Typography, Typography Design
Type-Ø-Tones
A course by Type-Ø-Tones
José Manuel Urós is a self-taught programmer, typographer, designer and guitarist.
Born in Barcelona in 1956, a city that loves and tries not to leave more than two weeks ... every two years.
He began his career as a programmer in the eighties and in 1988 he began to work with numerous design and advertising studios.
In 1992, he established a close relationship with Estudio Mariscal, in charge of typographical projects and editorial design. From 1993 he teaches Design and Typography courses in Eina, Elisava, ESDI and IDEP.
His with the fonts EbuScript, Matricia, Vulcano, Memimas, Ginebra, Joost, Optica, Reload, Solida, Arboria and Arbotek.
Parallel to his work as a designer, he develops a fruitful musical career playing with artists and bands such as Bootunoo, New Buildings, MCW, La Fura dels Baus, Leo Mariño, Josep Giménez, Elements, Pangrams, Adrián Morales or Unoma and Altaba / Samsó / Urós , among others. His last performances have been with the GRUS group.
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Laura Meseguer is a graphic designer, typist and freelance typeface designer. He lives and works in Barcelona and in his studio he develops editorial design projects, as well as lettering and customized typography.
In 2003 he studied the KABK Master's Degree and Media in The Hague. His final work, the Rumba typeface, is selected in 2005 by the TDC in the TypeDesign Competition. As author, she publishes the book "TypoMag, typography in magazines" and in 2012 "How to create typographies, from the sketch to the screen" of Type e, which is co-authored by Cristóbal Henestrosa and José Scaglione.
Meseguer has participated in exhibitions and conferences at an international level and teaches typography classes at schools such as Elisava and Eina.
She is the author of the alphabets such as Cortada, Frankie, Rumba, Guapa, Magasin, Lalola and Multi.
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