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Learning Graphic Design: Set Perfect Text

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

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Graphic Design Courses Typography Courses Typefaces Courses

Course Description

Overview

Learn to set text perfectly, adjusting letterforms so they are balanced and beautiful, with these tips from Before & After guru John McWade.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
1. What Good Text Type Looks Like
  • A medium typeface
  • Indents, spacing, fractions, and footnotes
  • Quotation and other marks, lowercase numerals, and dashes
  • Italics, ligatures, ellipses, small caps, parentheses, and the subhead
2. Going Deeper
  • How to set perfectly justified type
  • Understanding type sizes, line lengths, and line spacing
  • How to set perfect drop caps
Conclusion
  • Parting thoughts

Taught by

John McWade

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