Typography Theory - Create Strong Designs

Learn the fundamentals of typography, including font styles, typefaces, kerning, and spacing. Understand type hierarchy and its role in design. No software required. Less than 1 hour.

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• 37 minutes
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• Free Trial Available

Mastering Typography 1: Introduction to Typographic Contrast

Learn the basics of typography and typesetting with this short course. Gain skills in creating impactful layouts and pairing typefaces, using Adobe InDesign or similar software.

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• 26 minutes
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• Free Trial Available

Strong Lines 3: The Gentle Gothics

Learn gentle gothic letterforms, basics of letter spacing, and design a greeting card in this 1-2 hour online course suitable for students with some calligraphy experience.

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• 1 hour 12 minutes
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• Free Trial Available

Impress Me: Illustrating for Letterpress

Learn the basics of letterpress printing and Photoshop techniques with illustrator Tom Froese. Design a 2-colour greeting card in this 1-2 hour course.

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• 1 hour 3 minutes
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• Free Trial Available

Digital Lettering: Designing Typography for Headlines in a Visual Layout

Learn to design expressive typography for headlines with designer Alex Trochut. Explore inspiration, sketching, digitizing, and finalizing a layout in a 90-minute class.

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• 1 hour 37 minutes
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• Free Trial Available

Hand Drawn Typography: Designing a Font from Your Handwriting

Learn to create a unique font from your handwriting in less than an hour. This course covers drawing letters, vectorizing, refining, and generating a font file.

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• 20 minutes
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Draw Doodle Typography

Learn how to turn your doodles into a piece of Art. Choose your own word and font and then cut a stencil. You will get some ideas about different styles of doodle, creating movement and flow with your lines and then developing your own style. Let's get d…

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• 30 minutes
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Typographic Layouts: Create Layouts for Content Heavy Websites and Apps

Learn to create effective typographic layouts for content-heavy websites and apps, focusing on responsive design, grid composition, and visual hierarchy in a 3-4 hour course.

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• 3 hours 2 minutes
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• Free Trial Available

Combining Lettering and Illustration

Learn to combine lettering and illustration in a visually interesting way with Skillshare's 2-3 hour course. Includes lettering brushes, a workbook, and a drawing challenge.

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• 2 hours 15 minutes
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• Free Trial Available

Timeless Design: Create a Monogram Using Your Initials

Learn to design a timeless monogram using your initials in less than an hour. The course includes sketching, vectorizing, and a chance to win your monogram as a stamp.

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• 31 minutes
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• Free Trial Available

Typography Wall Art: How to Create Fancy Prints For Your Home or Shop

Show off your creativity and favorite phrase with typography wall art. In this class I'll be teaching you how to put your best quotes, taglines or phrases into a fancy design for your wall. You might even end up creating your own online shop of prints.

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• 1 hour 7 minutes
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• Free Trial Available

Abstract Typography Posters from shapes

Learn to create abstract typography posters using Illustrator and Photoshop in less than an hour, covering color, shape manipulation, composition, and finalizing designs.

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• 53 minutes
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• Free Trial Available

Build a Better Font: An In-Depth Guide To Creating Fonts

Learn how to create a professional font with the help of Jake Bartlett. Jake will show you how to get your charters into Glyphs, correctly space and kern your font, and then test and refine until it’s a perfect font ready to use, sell or share with frien…

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• 1 hour 30 minutes
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Intro to the Typographic Grid

Learn to construct and apply the typographic grid in this short course, ideal for designers and typography enthusiasts. Familiarity with Adobe InDesign required.

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• 34 minutes
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Typographic Badges: Building with Type, Shape and Balance

Design a type vector badge using the type and shape tools in illustrator. I show you the process on how to design a cool badge logos. All you need is adobe illustrator cs5, cs6 or CC (Free Trial), a pencil, paper and your imagination.

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• 26 minutes
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• Free Trial Available