Overview
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This course walks you through how to design logo type and provides assets for you to follow along.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Type techniques for aspiring and professional logo designers
- Watch me first: Who is this course for?
- Gradient basics
- Rich color gradients
- Metallic gradients
- Gradient mesh
- Gradients and opacity
- Freeform gradients
- Texture gradients
- Gradient dimension
- Blend modes
- Stepped complementary colors
- Segmented color
- Tints and shades
- Overlapping lines
- Blended lines around a spine
- Halftone dots
- Dot matrix
- Offset path
- Pattern
- Using symbols as patterns
- Varying stroke weight
- Shadow basics
- Shadow only
- Extruded shadow
- Hatched shadow
- Casting a different shadow
- Ground shadow
- Offset outlines
- Adding multiple strokes to type
- Extruded type
- Bevelled type
- Interlocking shapes
- Type on a cube
- Peeling type
- Type in perspective
- Type around a sphere
- Wireframe type
- Dimensional type using the Shape Builder
- Mapping a symbol to type
- Overlapping type
- Stylistic alternates
- Create a ligature
- Add a swash
- Frankenstein font
- Roughened type
- Rounded type
- Sheared type
- Combine letter and shape
- Half and half shading
- Art deco styling
- Filled counters
- Inline shape with Blend
- Inline shape with Offset Path
- Repetition
- Counters only
- Negative space
- Sliced
- Missing parts
- Stencil type
- Stylized letter
- Misregistered type
- Glitch
- Overprint
- Chalk type
- Scribble
- Hand-drawn type
- Spatter brush
- Texture and blend mode
- Texture and clipping mask
- Texture and opacity mask
- Texture and image trace
- Photographic type
- Simple type warp effects
- Type and envelope distortion
- Make with mesh type
- Puzzle type
- Goodbye
