The Essentials of Typography

This class is designed to help make everything you do using type look more professional by taking you through the most important typography rules, and teaching you the shortcuts, techniques and how to work with type in Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator (which thankfully all pretty much share the same shortcuts), so everything you do with type looks even better.

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Scott Kelby

Release Date: 2014-02-18

Lessons

Introduction

<p>Intro video.</p>

Duration: 0 mins 44 seconds

Tracking

<p>Creating professional-looking type starts with the spacing between letters.</p>

Duration: 9 mins 19 seconds

Kerning

<p>Controlling the space between two letters.</p>

Duration: 3 mins 24 seconds

Leading

<p>Adjusting the space between the lines of type.</p>

Duration: 8 mins 45 seconds

Justifying Type

<p>Use the paragraph panel to control the alignment of your text.</p>

Duration: 7 mins 21 seconds

Hyphens and Dashes

<p>Some rules on when and how to use them.</p>

Duration: 5 mins 17 seconds

Roman Hanging Punctuation

<p>A very important typography element to use with quotations.</p>

Duration: 3 mins 9 seconds

Two Spaces to Start Sentence

<p>This old habit is outdated and must be corrected.</p>

Duration: 3 mins 31 seconds

Ligatures

<p>These single characters are provided by the type designer to replace two letters that do not space correctly.</p>

Duration: 4 mins 50 seconds

Marks and Symbols

<p>Use super-scripting to add trademark and copyright symbols.</p>

Duration: 6 mins 2 seconds

Inch and Foot Marks, Small Caps

<p>Inch and foot marks are for use when typing out lengths. Small caps are great for times.</p>

Duration: 4 mins 1 seconds

No Script in All Caps

<p>Don't ruin your script font by using all caps.</p>

Duration: 2 mins 33 seconds

Italics and Bold

<p>Use these when adding emphasis to your type.</p>

Duration: 2 mins 25 seconds

Ellipse and All Caps

<p>Introducing a new symbol and rules for using call caps.</p>

Duration: 3 mins 23 seconds

Tabs

<p>Never try to line up your text using the space bar.</p>

Duration: 1 mins 49 seconds

Mixing Fonts

<p>Rules for when you are using two different fonts.</p>

Duration: 3 mins 14 seconds

Pick the Right Font

<p>Here are some useful tips for picking which font to use in your design.</p>

Duration: 1 mins 43 seconds