I. Font Design and Typesetting Design Books 1, Typesetting in Western Languages
Western typesetting
This book gradually discovers the problems in typesetting through typesetting cases and exercises encountered in practice. It covers a wide range, including basic knowledge of western languages, basic knowledge of typesetting, exercises, comparison of right and wrong, key and difficult points in typesetting, as well as the application of western typesetting in practice, good cases and 19 solutions. I believe you will gain something after reading it.
I will be shocked when I get this book. I've never seen such comfortable typesetting. I suggest adding it to the collection list. Because a large number of examples are used, the content will be very clear and easy to understand, and the author's gentleness can also be found in the details of typesetting.
2. Layout design principles? Case article "
Layout design principle? The case article was written by four designers. This book compares the successful cases and failure cases in many design rules from five chapters: layout structure, text elements, colors, pictures and web page layout, and guides readers to think about what is a better layout design. When the reader has finished thinking, the author's views are given on the next page of the article, and the corresponding design points are pointed out. This makes readers think with questions, makes reading more interesting, and quickly and firmly grasps the basic principles of layout design through case comparison.
3. Grid system in graphic design
The author of Grid System in Graphic Design is Joseph Miller-Brockman, who is known as "the pioneer of Swiss graphic design". This book mainly introduces the function and usage of grid, aiming to provide a practical tool for designers of plane and space, so that they can deal with and solve visual problems more effectively and confidently from the concept, organizational structure and design.
4. "Hundred Years of Words"
This book introduces in detail the history of western printing and font design for more than one hundred years, discusses and analyzes the printing creation trend from 1900 to 20 10, evaluates some important factors that have changed the development direction of printing and font design, and also shows various trends of printing and font design.
Centennial writing
5. Free words in font design and creativity
This is a well-written font design book, where the author records his many years of font design history. From this book, you can read the author's experience in font design, the sharing of successful cases and some stories related to font design. See the growth of the author-those precious things besides skills and technology. "Free Word in Font Design and Creativity" first explains some basic rules and design methods of font design; Next, the author summarizes his many years' experience in font design in the form of "36 plans" to help readers learn and understand; Then, through 33 successful commercial font design cases, this paper expounds the design breakthrough point, theme establishment and design principles that should be paid attention to when facing customers.
Second, font design website fonts and typesetting can be learned not only through books, but also through the Internet. Then share several websites related to font design here, hoping to bring inspiration to your font design.
1, [Ziyou] is a word: to solve the problem of designers using Chinese characters.
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2. Dafeng? Free English font library download station, although there are no Chinese fonts, there are many beautiful and novel English fonts.
Image source: Dafeng
3、Fontjoy？ : Helps you choose font combinations and generate font pairs with one click.
4. A cool font set.
5. Google fonts
6.Adobe fonts | Explore infinite fonts
7、 Fonts.com
8.FontShop | The best print, screen and web fonts in the world.
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9. Fonts for printing, products and services. Screen | My Font
10, the most popular font today, free commercial font.
Third, font design learning video in the design, using fonts to attract people's attention, how to integrate fonts with other designs and highlight the design theme is very important for graphic design or UI design. We choose several representative fonts to copy and learn how these fonts are made step by step.
1, poster font
In life, we will see all kinds of posters, which can highlight what we want to promote through simple words and pictures. Then we choose a simple electronic poster to analyze the design process of this font.
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2. Devil font
Making this magical and dazzling metallic text effect with black style can make the font design more textured and greatly improve the overall page display effect. How to make fonts have texture and metallic luster? Let's learn step by step through the video above.
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3. Star words
Stars always give people a very smart and dreamy feeling, which makes the whole picture look more vivid. In fact, the design of this font is not difficult. Find a good background picture of the starry sky and follow the tutorial step by step to make a dream star character.
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4. Stereotype
Many times, in order to enhance the three-dimensional sense, we will use three-dimensional characters to emphasize the three-dimensional sense of the whole picture.
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5, font deformation, strawberry characters
Font deformation is a common method in font design. Through this deformation, the font is more in line with the design theme, and its methods include horizontal thin vertical thick method, sharp corner method, flexible bending method, calligraphy style method and so on.
The above simply shared several methods of making fonts. If you want to make the design more flexible, you can choose excellent fonts to copy and learn, and then you can use them flexibly when using them.
In fact, whether it is books, websites or videos, the best way to learn font design is to read more and do more. When your knowledge and experience have accumulated to a certain extent, you can flexibly design products that meet your needs according to the scene. I hope the above answers will help you learn font design.