Explore good typographic practices. Learn how to select and use type to add impact, how type is measured, and how factors like spacing and alignment affect your design.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome to the wonderful world of type
- Why good typography matters
- The power of type: Print-based and screen-based
- The theory of typographic relativity
- Becoming a good "type detective"
- Getting the most out of this course
- Serif vs. sans serif
- Display type vs. text type
- Display type and branding
- Type history
- Type classification
- Other type categories
- Guidelines for choosing and combining typefaces
- Using cases
- Anatomy: Parts and shapes of type
- Size and measurements of type
- Type families: Widths, weights, and slopes
- Terminology of type based on function
- Color and tonal weight: Exercises
- Kerning and kerning pairs
- Tracking and leading
- Variations on alignment
- Hyphenation and justification
- Indents, outdents, and hanging punctuation
- Other good typographic practices
- Special considerations: Screen-based type
- Where type begins: The mark of the hand
- Related parts and shapes: Family resemblances
- Designing a typeface
- Legibility and readability: Differences
- More legibility tips
- Discover how hierarchy works
- Systematized hierarchy: Branding
- Opening paragraphs and drop caps
- Typographic abominations
- Opposing forces of typography
- The grid: A structure for containing type
- Contrast and scale
- Expressive typography
- The emotional impact of type
- Three-dimensional type
- Environmental typography
- Branding using typography
- Typography in motion
- Working with numbers
- Expert characters and analphabetic symbols
- Using typography to navigate content
- Managing your fonts
- Building your type library
- Developing your typographic "eye"
- Breaking the rules
- What's next?
Taught by
Ina Saltz
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she's great I understand everything . and she give the summaries of the topic .thanks smooch ........................... wish I can see more free course