Take your love of letterforms to the next level. This series explores all things related to type and the practice of typography.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- Extreme drop caps
- Using the Illustrator Touch Type tool
- Working with pull quotes
- Designing on a diagonal grid
- Golden ratio
- Cropped type: Working with large abstract letters
- Creating a word search
- Working with OpenType alternates
- Color fonts
- Working with picture fonts
- Controlling text flow with span and split columns
- Designing with variable type
- Creating alternating color jazz type
- Five steps to well-justified text
- Text wrap effects
- Creating a text highlight with padding
- Optical type sizing
- Creating info boxes
- Using warp effects in Illustrator
- Working with transparency
- Tips for working with script typefaces
- Measurement tips: Five reasons you should use points
- Using the Chartwell font
- Optically aligning a book cover title
- Five tips to better tables
- Convey inclusion with connected type
- Create a listings page
- Creating a listicle with auto-numbered drop caps
- Creating an extruded shadow in Illustrator
- An InDesign Baseline Grid Tip
- Creating offset outlines in Illustrator
- Photographing Type
- An Illustrator text warping tip
- Five reasons to use the Story Editor
- Sans Forgetica
- Designing a minimalist calendar
- Representing opposites through negative space
- Metrics vs. optical kerning
- Autogenerated captions
- Minimalist type with the Live Paint Bucket
- Tips for typesetting poetry
- Align the first baseline only
- Optical vertical centering
- Applying fractions with a grep style
- Using invisible paragraph rules on chapter opening pages
- Using Optical Margin Alignment
- Spacing of items in a bulleted list
- Tracking tips
- Adding flush spaces
- Syncing type area with baseline grid increment
- Creating mirrored folios
- Using a no-break character style
- Spacing type around a circle
- Monospace type
- Creating object styles for captions
- Splitting and breaking stories
- Adding a shaded shadow
- Adding non-printing line numbers
- Fast formatting and text clean up
- Knockout text
- Use conditional text to make teacher and student versions
- Highlight spaces in justified type
- Fine-tuning spacing in a text block
- Multicolumn frames and threaded frames
- Creating an illustrated lyric using Live Paint
- The Glyphs panel
- Combining type and images in an abstract poster
- "Nut" or stacked fractions
- The resolution of Photoshop type
- All you ever wanted to know about placeholder text
- Creating movie poster credits
- Creating a vintage magazine cover
- Working with character styles at relative sizes
- Creating a travel book cover
- Create a simple 3D type effect
- Putting type around a figure 8 or any overlapping path
- Shaping text with the Illustrator Touch Type tool
- Creating an ASCII text portrait
- Creating hand-inked text in Photoshop and Illustrator
- Working with text frames in InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop
- Creating abstract letterforms with the Illustrator Blend tool
- Blending letters with the Illustrator Blend tool
- Handling prepositions in title treatments
- Typesetting a quote
- Looking for the word within
- Professional typography in Microsoft Word
- Numbers in circles
- BLOKK
- Stroke
- Spacing after a headline
- Typographic map
- Ornaments
- Word spacing
- Catchwords
- Text wrap spacing
- Infographic
- Leveraging the power of text frame object styles
- Create a Victorian type poster
- Set up an uneven column grid in InDesign
- Create and alphabet from a single grid
- Adding a rule either side of a header
- Zero-width characters
- Text highlighting with a custom edge
- Design a visual table of contents
- Converting outlines to an editable font
- Create an environmental alphabet
- Avoid problems when copying InDesign text
- Create a simple text knockout
- Designing a product guide
- Experiments with type and pattern
- Experiments with live transformations and Illustrator area type
- Getting the most from discretionary liigatures
- Fixing kerning pairs with a GREP style
- Stackable 3D or chromatic fonts
- Creating a simple index in InDesign
- Adding flourishes to type in Illustrator
- Creating shaped text
- The InDesign Hidden Characters font
- Using a dotless i
- Automatic kerning methods in Illustrator
- Desert island type
- Using type in Illustrator for the iPad
- Giving trees a typographic voice
- Illustrator clipping masks
- Glyph shifting with OpenType
- Align to glyph guides
- Auto-size text frames
- Go bigger
- Further explorations with variable type
- Using perspective distort in Illustrator
- Using column rules in InDesign
- Vertical justification in Illustrator
- Calendar
- Creating water-damaged type in Fresco
- Word counts in InDesign
- Create a kaleidoscope effect in Illustrator
- Using libraries to copy text between InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop
- Working with ultra-compressed type
- In praise of ampersands
- Dealing with difficult drop caps
- The tilde key trick
- A simple spatter effect
- Font height options in Illustrator
- Stencil lettering
- Using the Repeat Grid options in Illustrator
- The problem with InDesign Text Wrap and anchored objects
- Hand-drawn type (using a mouse)
- Text flow recap
- Approaches to typographic hierarchy
- Setting the fine print
- Display drop cap
- Create a stained glass effect in Illustrator
- Bendy columns in InDesign
- Movie credit alignment
- Extend a picture with type
- Art Deco type shading
- Type, transparency, and vintage illustration
- Create a vintage fruit crate type treatment
- Set the visual size of type
- Vertical Type and the Touch Type tool
- Convert type to an art brush
- Type and picture frames using the Shape Builder tool
Taught by
Nigel French
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