How do you practise?
Mads Davidsen
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I like to draw and paint. When I practise, I find reference photos to mimic still-life drawing. Every time I tell myself that I should practise (becoming a better type designer and letterer), I always get stuck as to how I should practise that. If you teach type design, what kind of exercises do you give to your students? As for the more technical aspects, I find tutorials on Glyphsapp.com and try to repeat the techniques inside the application.
—Mads
—Mads
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http://typecooker.com is good for training. And it's fun.5
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Practice looking at the white, to take it seriously; it's the hardest thing.-1
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"Practice looking at the white," in relation to the black!1
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Try doing the hard thing long enough that you prefer doing it to the easy thing.2
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Michael Clark said:"Practice looking at the white," in relation to the black!0
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Hey @D. Epar ted, Why you think everybody is off topic here?2
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I appreciate your input, but it wasn’t really what I was going for. I watched a video on Skillshare with Louise Fili in which she said she used to practise drawing letters from a book she had. I was wondering if that is something you do when you are studying type design—or is it all technical?0
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Practice is technical.0
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I once practiced calligraphy, drawing a page of curves over and over again.
In typography, I set type in Quark XPress to imitate, in facsimile, a page of old letterpress typography.
In digital type design, I’ve used an existing font as a benchmark, trying to make my new type match (and better) its character count and readability; for instance, my Pratt body text font was designed to match Utopia in character count and x-height—even though it is a quite different genre.2 -
Like this: http://typerobics.scannerlicker.net/4
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scannerlicker said:Like this: http://typerobics.scannerlicker.net/
Another thing I like to do to practice my vector-drawing skills is to recreate existing letterforms by eye. I think continual feedback is an important component of practice — if you can learn to see when a shape or curve is not matching your target, you can keep tweaking the point/handle placement until you can see you've got it. No better way to learn how to create a certain kind of shape or curve than to trial-and-error your way into actually doing it.
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Uh, interesting! That is a start.1 -
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Austin Stahl said:scannerlicker said:Like this: http://typerobics.scannerlicker.net/0
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Mads Davidsen said:@scannerlicker
Uh, interesting! That is a start.0 -
I use TypeCooker as well, using pen & paper. I'll typically stick with a single word.0
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