Learn All The Most Important Typography Terms From One Poster

Ever heard of a tittle? Did you know that a ball terminal was a thing or what a beak looks like? If you didn’t, get this poster. It’s a clean and pretty way to learn typography that shows you all of the different terms in a nice presentation. And hey, even if you do know typography like the back of your ear (see what I did there?), then this can still work as a handy reference guide in a pinch. Just hang it up on the wall in front of your computer so it’s always within view.

Plus, it’s , and who can turn down cool art for under ? Not me, I tell you. Not me.

Buy it now at Pop Chart Lab

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Learn All The Most Important Typography Terms From One Poster

Jessica Hische"s 3 Important Tips for Vectorizing Your Lettering

We’re teaming up with Skillshare to bring you some fantastic design tutorials. Today, we’ve got a lesson from the extremely talented type designer, Jessica Hische. In the video below, she walks you through some great tips for how to place your points and work with bezier curve handles when vectorizing your lettering in Illustrator.

3 Important Tips for Vectorizing Your Lettering

To review what you just saw in the video, remember the following:

1. Plot your points along the extrema
   


2. Don’t cross the streams
   


3. Make sure your anchors share the workload
   

These three simple tricks will help you create much smoother curves when vectoring in Illustrator and other vector applications.

This is just a small sample of Jessica’s awesome full course on lettering. Head over to Skillshare to view the full course.

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Jessica Hische"s 3 Important Tips for Vectorizing Your Lettering