Five Ways to Become a Better Typographer – Episode 076 - a podcast by Brandi Sea

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This week we get to answer a question from a listener on how to be a better typographer, and we are so excited about it! 





Featured Music:

Boygenius – Bite the Hand

Starflyer 59 – Wake up Early

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Inspirations, Thoughts, Opinions, & Updates

What We’ve Been Up To

Michelle:



Has limited the number of parties she’s going to this Christmas season, but is still watching many crappy Christmas movies

Has been listening to girl bands on repeat

And she is going to have the wrap party for the webisode series, Newclear Family, and she got to watch part of the unedited shots.





Brandi:



Has also been watching Christmas movies, but she didn’t cry at the end of the Christmas Chronicles which Michelle is shocked about

She did watch the “The Man Who Invented Christmas”, and it perfectly describes what a creative feels like when they get knocked out of their creative zone. Be listening for this topic in a future episode. *wink wink*

* Also watched “Into The Spiderverse” and it’s an epic work of creativity–Go see it!

And she also had a great conversation with Hugh Weber, but she can’t talk about it too in depth. However, Hugh will be on some future episodes! He’s a fan of is, we’re a fan of him, it’s great.

Oh! And she got her hair dyed this week! It’s called Oil Slick and it’s basically CMYK and amazing



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Five Ways to Be a Better Typographer 





Research Books (always)



LogoLounge & Other Logo Books

* 1000 Series

* Book Cover Design

* Poster Design Books





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Practice Being an Active Observer of Type



* Type is everywhere, look at it closely

* In one class Brandi had to do a project where she had to crop in closely on a single letter to study typefaces.

* Look at individual letters, spaces between lines, really see the details.

* Which you can use in the real world because once you know a font when you see it in the real world you can get a sense of what something is about based on the font it had. (i.e. Netflix original shows)





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Become an “Art Director”



* Look at and critique Kerning, Type Choices, and analyze every aspect of the type

* Brandi also suggests to plan out your hierarchy. Hierarchy is the order you want your viewers to see your design. Study the layout, the sizes the colors. Where the letters are, even the spaces between the letters. Pretend to be an art director if that helps so you can get better at studying where everything is in your designs







Practice Combining Typefaces 



Once you understand typefaces you can start combining them together. Some fonts work really well together and can help you in design, but be aware that that also means some fonts don’t work well together. Know why you are combining typefaces together.





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Play Games!



Brandi also has some font apps that she has on her phone to practice font recognition in a fun, interactive way.



What the Font

Brandi said Font Book but meant “Design Speaks

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