3 Hour Live Training on Advanced Typography

About the Course

In this course, Advanced Typography, you will learn to master typography and fonts. First, in the Mastering Fonts chapter, you will become a font expert, learning about the formats and structure of fonts, including font licensing. You will also learn how to find any character, symbol, or glyph in a font, and even where to turn to add your own or to fix errors or stylistic discrepancies in fonts you want to use. In the second half of the course, Mastering Typography, you will learn to identify typefaces with more specificity than just Serif or Sans Serif; about Font Families and Superfamilies; strategies and sample combinations for choosing complementary typefaces and families for legibility, typographic contrast, mood, proportions, and more for print and Web/Mobile typography.

Course Objective

Understand Font Formats

Understand Font Licensing

Be Able to Find Characters, Accents, and Glyphs Inside Fonts

Understand Advanced Type Classifications

Learn About and Use Font Superfamilies

Apply Typographic Contrast

Learn the Benefits of Combining Type with Similar Proportions

Learn the Benefits of Combining Typefaces from the Same Foundry

Who is the Target Audience?

Graphic designers, mobile app developers, video and motion designers, corporate IT departments.

Basic Knowledge:

Installing and using fonts on computers. Basic CSS.