How to Choose Fonts
Course final project
A course by Enric Jardí , Designer
Discover what each type of font tells us and how to choose the right one for your project
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About the final project for: How to Choose Fonts
How to choose fonts
“Well, we have already reached the end of the course. I hope you have served all that I have taught you in this time we have shared together. In this last video, I summarize everything we've seen. It is important that you keep up the evolution of the work and most important of all: At the end of all the tasks, upload all the work you have done with a few short annotations in a single project. It is a good way to see everything together you have learned If we see all the projects, we will surely learn a lot from each other. Thank you very much and see you in the forum, where I will answer any questions. Enric”
Partial transcription of the video
“Final project Well, we have finished the lessons. We have touched on many typography topics, which I hope have interested you. Notice that we have seen how we wrote the words, we have distinguished between lettering, calligraphy and what is properly typography, which is where we have focused. Afterwards, we have looked closely at the letters. We have seen its structure, rather than making classifications, to learn to distinguish them. We have covered a readability issue, which is a bit difficult to discern. And, above all, we have taken longer on the subject of the small text, which is the ...”
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Course summary for: How to Choose Fonts
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Category
Calligraphy & Typography -
Areas
Art Direction, Editorial Design, Graphic Design, Information Design, Web Design
A course by Enric Jardí
Enric's interest in fonts is a result of his professional work. He studied design during a period when it wasn’t taught as such, but over time, his interest in this specific topic grew.
In the 90s when the first text editors for personal computers appeared, he and a group of friends established Type-Ø-Tones, a company that still exists today.
He became especially interested in the use of letters, incorporating the subject into the design classes he taught at Escuela Elisava and later at Eina.
He is the author of several texts and books, including Veintidós consejos sobre tipografía (que algunos diseñadores jamás revelarán), Veintidós cosas que nunca debes hacer con las letras (que algunos tipógrafos nunca te dirán), and Pensar con imágenes. He’s also spoken at conferences about fonts, explaining the topic in a way that he wishes it would've been explained to him. This includes explaining the origins and reasons for each aspect, starting with the most important parts and finishing with details and tips, and questioning the assumptions and myths surrounding fonts.
Aside from fonts, his work mainly focuses on magazine, book cover, and corporate image design. In collaboration with Marcus Villaça, he's worked on multiple publishing projects, including the redesign of the Chicago Reader newspaper and the Boston Phoenix.
From September 2005 to April 2009, he served as president of the Asociación de Directores de Arte y Diseñadores Gráficos ADG-FAD. In October 2009, he received the Premio Nacional de Cultura design prize from the Autonomous Government of Catalonia.
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