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Rule Seven: Composition: putting it all together.

14. April 2009

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Rule Seven: Composition: putting it all together.

Part Seven of Seven Easy Principles to Becoming a Master Designer. Ok Folks, This is it; part seven of seven. I’ve hopefully convinced you to limit your use of colors and fonts, taught you to provide sufficient contrast, suggested that you properly space your elements and let you in on the secrets of adding depth and [...]

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How to Design a Font: {Part 4} Finishing Touches

5. December 2008

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How to Design a Font: {Part 4} Finishing Touches

Well this is it – the final part in my series “How to Design a Font”! Be sure to catch up with the previous articles in the series: Part 1: Get inspired Part 2: Draw up a Storm! and Part 3: Make it Digital Great now we’re finally into fontlab. This is pretty much the easiest part of [...]

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How to Design a Font: {Part 3} Make it Digital!

17. November 2008

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How to Design a Font: {Part 3} Make it Digital!

The Grid Now that you have your font pretty well figured out it’s time to get into the computer. First things first, setting up Illustrator. I like to first turn on the grid. This is the easiest way to transfer your font from the grid paper to the computer. To turn on the grid go to [...]

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How To Design a Font: {Part2} Draw Up A Storm!

29. October 2008

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How To Design a Font: {Part2} Draw Up A Storm!

Terminology Before we get into the meat of this tutorial I want to give you a crash course in font terminology. I know it’s not exactly the most exciting thing but I seriously think it’s good for you to know this before we get too far. Sans serif: A type of font that doesn’t have accents [...]

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How to Design A Font: {Part 1} Get Inspired!

16. October 2008

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How to Design A Font: {Part 1} Get Inspired!

I haven’t written a blog post in a while so I thought it was time I jumped right in and did a tutorial series about fonts. There will be three more tutorials that will follow this one. Their forces combined will account for pretty much everything I know of how to make a font. So [...]

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Ornate Lettering Process

1. November 2007

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Ornate Lettering Process

I’m going to show you the process as to how I do my ornate lettering. This is a new design I did for Stone Sour that utilized this technique. Now right off the bat, this is not a step by step tutorial. It’s more of a look behind the scenes into how [...]

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Old School Type – Line Gradients

11. September 2007

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Old School Type – Line Gradients

One of our readers suggested we write a tutorial explaining how to do this cool text effect. On the Dragonforce logo above, the basis of my typography was sketched on paper first and then vectored in Illustrator using the Pen Tool. The process for creating the base logo is not included in this [...]

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