Adobe Illustrator for Typography, Lettering and Calligraphy

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

• Level: Beginner
• 96% positive reviews (412)
• 14 students
• 11 units
• 11 lessons (1h 9m)
• 3 downloads