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Advanced Typography: Fine Tuning and Finessing

 

Advanced Typography: Fine Tuning and Finessing

 

Class Description

Master the typographic skills that are rarely taught or fully understood by design professionals from acclaimed author, educator, and type expert, Ilene Strizver.

In Advanced Typography: Fine Tuning & Finessing you will learn advanced typographic skills and aesthetics every serious designer needs to know. Ilene will share practical tips you can use to visibly improve the readability and effectiveness of your type, including:

  • How to fine-tune your type
  • Tracking and word spacing tips and tricks
  • Custom kerning
  • Working with figures and fractions
  • Text kerning

Professional typography sets your designs apart, while attracting and holding your audience’s attention. Learn how to set type without fear – develop your skills and build your confidence in with insights from Ilene in Advanced Typography: Fine Tuning & Finessing.

Check out Ilene's related course, Typography Fundamentals

Lessons

  1. Formatting Your Type
  2. Format: Hyphens, Alignment, & Separators
  3. Initial Letter Alignment & Figures
  4. Finessing Your Type - Part 1
  5. Finessing Your Type - Part 2
  6. Spacing Considerations
  7. Advanced Spacing
  8. What's a Good Typeface?
  9. Custom Kerning
  10. Spoting Kerning Examples
  11. Can You Spot the Type Crime?
  12. Custom Letterforms with Gerard Huerta

Reviews

a Creativelive Student
 

Ilene's courses on Typography are jam-packed with excellent information that will elevate the quality of your work in print. She knows what';s current, but also what's important in long-time standards, and why. Just an incredible amount of information! you will enjoy watching, but you will want to purchase because of the sheer amount of useful content.

Elizabeth
 

I bought this and the intro class and love them both! I had no idea fonts, typefaces and typesetting could be so interesting and detailed. Ilene is a clear and informative teacher. I love that she teaches why things are done, not simply "do this". I learn faster and remember better with her style of instruction.

Sara Tieszen Paschal
 

I learned so much I am thankful for Ilene's list. Love her loved this typography class. The last hour of content with Gerard Huerta really took away my desire to watch the content and in the end took away from the Typography class. I would remove it. (insert mouth noise here!)