Tag: lettering

Part I: Introduction | Part II: Learning To See | Part III: Overshooting | Part IV: The Stroke (Optics) 0. Introduction Welcome back! I’ve been rewriting this article for ages now, so I’m glad to finally share this with you! Today we’re going through a subject that it’s apparently simple, but the degree of complexity and abstraction can escalate pretty quickly, […]

Edit: Since the release of this article, a couple of things changed: the project is now called Typerobics and it has a dedicated microsite! If you’ve been paying attention to my Facebook or Twitter feeds (or even Behance, but not as much up-to-date), you’ve certainly noticed that I’ve been posting a custom lettered word (almost) […]

Index Introduction | Learning To See | Overshooting | The Stroke: Optics This is the first article of three, in our series, to talk about the stroke. We briefly introduced the idea (in the previous article) that the stroke width has an effect on perception and, for this reason, should be adjusted. So, this article is just about that: optical […]

Some years ago (maybe a couple, maybe more: I excel at losing track of time), Ricardo Gomes, from Lucky Stripes Cigar Box Guitars, needed a script lettering for his guitars. For me, this was a really cool project: making scripts is always fun and challenging, I could do a fast project (since it’s lettering), lots of […]