Do you know the difference between a typeface and a font? Tracking and kerning? Learn everything you need to know in our ultimate typography guide.

Good typography is one of the cornerstones of good design. In The Ultimate Guide to Typography, you’ll learn everything from the most basic elements of typography and common mistakes through to more complex topics like combining and choosing fonts for your projects.

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to confidently talk about typography and experiment with concepts and fonts as you hone your typography skills.

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What You’ll Learn:

00:00:00 1.1 Introduction
00:01:19 1.2 Brief History of Type
00:05:47 1.3 Typeface vs. Font
00:07:14 2.1 Type Classification
00:17:00 2.2 Type Families
00:19:48 2.3 Font File Types
00:22:32 3.1 Legibility and Type Anatomy
00:25:19 3.2 Readability and Typesetting Basics
00:28:53 3.3 Common Typesetting Mistakes
00:31:09 4.1 Choosing the Right Fonts
00:34:41 4.2 Font Combinations
00:37:42 5.1 Conclusion

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41 Comments

  6. Thank you so much envato Tuts+. I am a new to Graphic Design and I am looking to improve my skills. I got hinted to learn it from the base/ root. I am going to start with theory before moving to practicals. Thank you so much!

  8. thank you so much for this video! it is so easy to understand. I am looking for a video because of the bad teaching of my professor, and this is the video that I am looking for!

  10. I think you didn't mention about Ligatures.
    But overall, it was a ten-out-of-ten for me. Short and concise, easy-to-understand and the most Important of all is that it covers 30% to 40% of the Typography Structures.

  13. Thank you so much.

    I have loved fonts for years. I even used to design fonts. I think that it goes back to the fact my grandfather was a German typesetter/printer (typography instead of fonts). One of my greatest joys in life was downloading then installing Helvetica. Was that illegal?

    You gave a really wonderful and in-depth explanation of typefaces and fonts. It is the best that I have ever seen.

    Can you tell me where to download Órchó GC font? Just kidding. I doubt that you can.

    Subscribed.

  17. Hint I learned long long back from a pre-computer typesetter (that did dry transfer lettering, like Letraset). When kerning a header, put the text up-side down. It releases your brain from interpreting the letters and you see more easily where you need kerning.

    To illustrate this, take out some book from your shelf with titles on their backs and turn them so the text is upside down. You will find that some have very bad kerning that you would not have spotted if having them in normal orientation 🙂

  18. Yeah I had been mentioned in my story telling book, in second preparatory class, all you are ✅️ talking right now letter character how to make it and special purpose for special character of letter, we had been a book about 'LETTERASET' in this book, more than 200 style type face and fonts.

  19. Thanks for providing this course free. I was reading a book to understand typography. However, it was a less intuitive and strenuous process. You made it easy by making this video.

  23. Amazing, thank you. As a non-designer, that was extremely helpful. That little short history of typography was very insightful too. Let me playing around with some of these typefaces and fonts like a pro now 😊

  33. What's it called if a letter or symbol is offset halfway or by an x-height?
    ie, say you write a fraction where each the numerator and denominator are potentially cap-height, and there's another number or variable multiplied out front centered after the fraction.
    Or you have a list of two items, a curly brace encompassing them both so it's twice a cap height, and there's words centered after the brace.

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