Adobe Illustrator for Typography, Lettering and Calligraphy
Course 4 - Create your Own Letters: Perfect pixels
By Andrés Ochoa , Designer
About the video: Perfect pixels
Overview
“I will tell you about this concept and why it is important to take it into account when designing letters that will be used on screens. In addition, I will explain how the pixels on your screen work and how they interpret the drawings and we will see the option of Illustrator perfect pixels that helps you align your stroke with them. ”
In this video lesson Andrés Ochoa addresses the topic: Perfect pixels, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 4 - Create your Own Letters. Discover the secrets to creating your own letters.
Partial transcription of the video
“ILLUSTRATOR COURSE 4 LESSON 10 Perfect Pixels I will tell you why this concept is superimportant mainly in the letters designed for screen. A screen, in the end, is a grid of pixels. The more pixels a letter or drawing has to represent, It is sharper, but this is changing. The smaller the drawing, has fewer pixels to represent and we are losing details. This is very important in the lyrics because you lose readability and certain aspects of the design. In this lesson I teach you how to avoid it. "Hinting" is a process followed by programmers and typo designers to automatically align the dra...”
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Course summary for: Course 4 - Create your Own Letters
Andrés Ochoa
By Andrés Ochoa
Andrés Ochoa is a Mexican designer with a degree in graphic design from the Universidad La Salle. He is a partner at the communication consultancy SUB and a lettering artist by the name of Typebrain.
Over the last ten years, he has directed and developed projects for industry giants such as Nestlé and Sephora as well as for individuals and start-ups across the fashion, music, and alcoholic beverage sectors.
His work has won awards and been published in magazines, books, and design blogs around the world. He has also given lectures and workshops at some of Mexico's leading universities. He is currently in the search for his own creative language through the exploration of lettering art.
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