Typography Design: Digitize Your Handwriting
Preparing your sheets and your writing instrument
A course by user1406742 surname1406742 , Graphic Designer
Joined July 2019
Discover how to turn your handwriting into a unique digital typeface that adds character and personal style to your writing pieces
Joined July 2019
About the video: Preparing your sheets and your writing instrument
Overview
“Your manual letters can be converted into typography without much trouble. In this lesson, I will give you some very practical keys to achieve it.”
In this video lesson user1406742 surname1406742 addresses the topic: Preparing your sheets and your writing instrument, which is part of the Domestika online course: Typography Design: Digitize Your Handwriting. Discover how to turn your handwriting into a unique digital typeface that adds character and personal style to your writing pieces.
Partial transcription of the video
“Preparing your sheets and your writing instrument When you learned to write, your teacher probably told you that there were different heights of the letters. That there were letters that were small like N or O, that there were letters that went up like H and letters that went down like P, which is true. Although in typography we speak of a fifth line, which is the uppercase line. Normally in everyday writing we think that capital letters have the same height that the letters that ascend like the lowercase H, but in typography, caps are a bit smaller than that. However, nothing happens if yo...”
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Course summary for: Typography Design: Digitize Your Handwriting
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Category
Calligraphy & Typography -
Areas
Design, Graphic Design, Typography, Typography Design
A course by user1406742 surname1406742
Cristóbal Henestrosa specializes in typography and book design. He has developed font families for clients such as the Fondo de Cultura Económica, Librerías Gandhi, and the Federal Government of Mexico, some of which have won awards from the Type Directors Club and have been selected for the Latin American typography biennial Tipos Latinos.
He is the author of Espinosa. Rescate de una tipografía novohispana (Mexico, Designio, 2005) and co-author of Cómo crear tipografías. Del boceto a la pantalla (Madrid, Tipo E, 2012), which has been translated into English, Polish, Portuguese, and Chinese. Since 2011 he has been teaching typography and type design at the Faculty of Arts and Design of the UNAM, as well as related subjects in diploma courses, specialties, and master's degrees in various institutions.
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