Type Tips
14h 54mIntermediate2021-09-27
Authors
Nigel French
Graphic Designer, Author, Artist, Trainer
Course details
Take your love of letterforms to the next level with this series that explores all things, big and small, related to type and the practice of typography. These tips are aimed at people using Adobe Creative Cloud: primarily InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop. Some tips are specific to particular applications and some are purely conceptual and software agnostic.
Skills covered
Creative CloudTypographyInDesignMotion Graphics and VFXGraphic DesignAdobeAnimation and Illustration
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Welcome
March 2018
- 02 - Extreme drop caps
- 03 - Using the Illustrator Touch Type tool
- 04 - Working with pull quotes
- 05 - Designing on a diagonal grid
- 06 - Golden ratio
April 2018
- 07 - Cropped type - Working with large abstract letters
- 08 - Creating a word search
- 09 - Working with OpenType alternates
- 10 - Color fonts
- 11 - Working with picture fonts
May 2018
- 12 - Controlling text flow with span and split columns
- 13 - Designing with variable type
- 14 - Creating alternating color jazz type
June 2018
- 15 - Five steps to well-justified text
- 16 - Text wrap effects
- 17 - Creating a text highlight with padding
- 18 - Optical type sizing
July 2018
- 19 - Creating info boxes
- 20 - Using warp effects in Illustrator
- 21 - Working with transparency
- 22 - Tips for working with script typefaces
August 2018
- 23 - Measurement tips - Five reasons you should use points
- 24 - Using the Chartwell font
- 25 - Optically aligning a book cover title
- 26 - Five tips to better tables
September 2018
- 27 - Convey inclusion with connected type
- 28 - Create a listings page
- 29 - Creating a listicle with auto-numbered drop caps
- 30 - Creating an extruded shadow in Illustrator
October 2018
- 31 - An InDesign Baseline Grid Tip
- 32 - Creating offset outlines in Illustrator
- 33 - Photographing Type
- 34 - An Illustrator text warping tip
November 2018
- 35 - Five reasons to use the Story Editor
- 36 - Sans Forgetica
- 37 - Designing a minimalist calendar
- 38 - Representing opposites through negative space
December 2018
- 39 - Metrics vs. optical kerning
- 40 - Autogenerated captions
- 41 - Minimalist type with the Live Paint Bucket
January 2019
- 42 - Tips for typesetting poetry
- 43 - Align the first baseline only
- 44 - Optical vertical centering
February 2019
- 45 - Applying fractions with a grep style
- 46 - Using invisible paragraph rules on chapter opening pages
- 47 - Using Optical Margin Alignment
March 2019
- 48 - Spacing of items in a bulleted list
- 49 - Tracking tips
- 50 - Adding flush spaces
- 51 - Syncing type area with baseline grid increment
April 2019
- 52 - Creating mirrored folios
- 53 - Using a no-break character style
- 54 - Spacing type around a circle
- 55 - Monospace type
- 56 - Creating object styles for captions
May 2019
- 57 - Splitting and breaking stories
- 58 - Adding a shaded shadow
- 59 - Adding non-printing line numbers
- 60 - Fast formatting and text clean up
June 2019
- 61 - Knockout text
- 62 - Use conditional text to make teacher and student versions
- 63 - Highlight spaces in justified type
July 2019
- 64 - Fine-tuning spacing in a text block
- 65 - Multicolumn frames and threaded frames
- 66 - Creating an illustrated lyric using Live Paint
- 67 - The Glyphs panel
August 2019
- 68 - Combining type and images in an abstract poster
- 69 - Nut or stacked fractions
- 70 - The resolution of Photoshop type
- 71 - All you ever wanted to know about placeholder text
September 2019
- 72 - Creating movie poster credits
- 73 - Creating a vintage magazine cover
- 74 - Working with character styles at relative sizes
- 75 - Creating a travel book cover
October 2019
- 76 - Create a simple 3D type effect
- 77 - Putting type around a figure 8 or any overlapping path
- 78 - Shaping text with the Illustrator Touch Type tool
- 79 - Creating an ASCII text portrait
November 2019
- 80 - Creating hand-inked text in Photoshop and Illustrator
- 81 - Working with text frames in InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop
- 82 - Creating abstract letterforms with the Illustrator Blend tool
- 83 - Blending letters with the Illustrator Blend tool
December 2019
- 84 - Handling prepositions in title treatments
- 85 - Typesetting a quote
- 86 - Looking for the word within
- 87 - Professional typography in Microsoft Word
January 2020
- 88 - Numbers in circles
- 89 - BLOKK
- 90 - Stroke
February 2020
- 91 - Spacing after a headline
- 92 - Typographic map
- 93 - Ornaments
- 94 - Word spacing
March 2020
- 95 - Catchwords
- 96 - Text wrap spacing
- 97 - Infographic
April 2020
- 98 - Leveraging the power of text frame object styles
- 99 - Create a Victorian type poster
- 100 - Set up an uneven column grid in InDesign
- 101 - Create and alphabet from a single grid
May 2020
- 102 - Adding a rule either side of a header
- 103 - Zero-width characters
- 104 - Text highlighting with a custom edge
June 2020
- 105 - Design a visual table of contents
- 106 - Converting outlines to an editable font
- 107 - Create an environmental alphabet
- 108 - Avoid problems when copying InDesign text
- 109 - Create a simple text knockout
July 2020
- 110 - Designing a product guide
- 111 - Experiments with type and pattern
- 112 - Experiments with live transformations and Illustrator area type
August 2020
- 113 - Getting the most from discretionary liigatures
- 114 - Fixing kerning pairs with a GREP style
- 115 - Stackable 3D or chromatic fonts
- 116 - Creating a simple index in InDesign
September 2020
- 117 - Adding flourishes to type in Illustrator
- 118 - Creating shaped text
- 119 - The InDesign Hidden Characters font
- 120 - Using a dotless i
October 2020
- 121 - Automatic kerning methods in Illustrator
- 122 - Desert island type
- 123 - Using type in Illustrator for the iPad
- 124 - Giving trees a typographic voice
November 2020
- 125 - Illustrator clipping masks
- 126 - Glyph shifting with OpenType
- 127 - Align to glyph guides
December 2020
- 128 - Auto-size text frames
- 129 - Go bigger
- 130 - Further explorations with variable type
- 131 - Using perspective distort in Illustrator
January 2021
- 132 - Using column rules in InDesign
- 133 - Vertical justification in Illustrator
February 2021
- 134 - Calendar
- 135 - Creating water-damaged type in Fresco
- 136 - Word counts in InDesign
March 2021
- 137 - Create a kaleidoscope effect in Illustrator
- 138 - Using libraries to copy text between InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop
- 139 - Working with ultra-compressed type
- 140 - In praise of ampersands
April 2021
- 141 - Dealing with difficult drop caps
- 142 - The tilde key trick
- 143 - A simple spatter effect
May 2021
- 144 - Font height options in Illustrator
- 145 - Stencil lettering
- 146 - Using the Repeat Grid options in Illustrator
- 147 - The problem with InDesign Text Wrap and anchored objects
June 2021
- 148 - Hand-drawn type (using a mouse)
- 149 - Text flow recap
- 150 - Approaches to typographic hierarchy
- 151 - Setting the fine print
July 2021
- 152 - Display drop cap
- 153 - Create a stained glass effect in Illustrator
- 154 - Bendy columns in InDesign
- 155 - Movie credit alignment
August 2021
- 156 - Extend a picture with type
- 157 - Art Deco type shading
- 158 - Type, transparency, and vintage illustration
- 159 - Create a vintage fruit crate type treatment
- 160 - Set the visual size of type
September 2021
- 161 - Vertical Type and the Touch Type tool
- 162 - Convert type to an art brush
- 163 - Type and picture frames using the Shape Builder tool
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