Typography is the art of manipulating the visual form of language to enrich and control its meaning. It’s an essential area of skill and knowledge for graphic designers. Typography predates modern graphic design by around 500 years; it is rich in rules, conventions, and esoteric terminology—but it remains an exciting space for invention and expression.
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Review the terminology and measuring system used to describe type
Explore how typefaces tell stories and understand the historic evolution
Conduct a peer-reviewed typesetting exercise
Design of a full-scale typographic poster
Skills you will gain
- Creativity
- Adobe Illustrator
- History
- Graphics
- Adobe Indesign
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Week 1: Talking Type
Week 2: Typefaces and their Stories
Week 3: Putting Type to Work
Week 4: Making Meaningful Type
Reviews
- 5 stars82.47%
- 4 stars14.87%
- 3 stars1.98%
- 2 stars0.34%
- 1 star0.32%
TOP REVIEWS FROM INTRODUCTION TO TYPOGRAPHY
I liked the course overall and found it informative. I think that the topics in week 3 and 4 could be combined. I also wasn't sure where I could post questions to clarify something in the assignments.
It's a very helpful course for the learners and a kickstart to the Graphic Designing aspirant.
This course helped me for making my basics more clear in Graphic Designing ...Loved it !
Reviewed some of what we learned about Typography in the first course (Fundamentals of Graphic Design), but did expand in some areas. Interesting and informative and great course assignments.
Como estudiante de arquitectura, este curso me ha ayudado bastante para la diagramación de láminas y el correcto uso de la tipografía. Gracias Coursera y CalArts por este maravilloso curso.
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