I have six helpful and useful tips to
improve your typography typography can
make or break a design so ensure that
you don't break your designs with my six
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now I've made various different
topography tips videos in the past so
I've linked some of those down the
description box below which you can
check out after today's upload the first
tip out of 6 tips today which will help
you in previous have ography is to
consider what conversation you want to
have with the typography that you're
using the style of the font or the
typeface that you're going to use in
your design will communicate a lot with
the visual style and that's not just
with the words being used so think about
your design and the context are you
going to use for example the heading on
this poster is modern sleek matching a
kind of dance music festival poster
design this is a crucial tip when using
typography and its importance cannot be
emphasized enough so as you can see here
the font change is way to form unserious
which doesn't fit the context of an
electronic dance music festival so
always consider the context and what
kind of conversation
do you want your font to be having with
the audience the style the lettering is
really going to communicate with
whomever Caesar subconsciously and
consciously speaking to the viewer
tip number two to improve your
typography is to consider using a mix of
bold and light fonts on your designs you
might have noticed I use this quite
often and it does look really neat when
used in the right way it's especially
useful for headings and large captions
of typography so yeah just experiment
with bold and light lettering and it's a
good idea to use the same font family
but we're just a bold and a light
version of that font you can really make
some neat and flat headings using this
style
the third tip I have for you today is
handy to remember if you're struggling
to decide how to align your text there
was a general rule that when in doubt
just align your text the left-hand side
you can do this in Illustrator really
easily
by using the align function as you can
see here in Western cultures we read
from the left hand side to the right so
aligning things in the left just makes
sense there are some exceptions of
course and your design might look better
on a line to the right but it's always a
safe bet to align to the left if you're
in any kind of doubts so as you can see
here on my poster it is possible to even
align headings of a design to the left
hand side and of course main body of
text should always be aligned to the
left or at least most of the time such
as on a magazine for example and like I
said there will be exceptions but just
to play it safe
aligned to the left the next image that
you will see is actually aligned to the
right however tip number 4 on how to
improve your typography is one that many
people get wrong and that is not to use
too many fonts for people beginning in
typography it's a pretty safe bet just
to stick to one font for your design and
if you want to use a second one maybe
just use a thinner or a border version
of the existing font that is until
you've gained more knowledge of font
combinations how to use up to two or
three fonts but yeah the golden rule
here is to stick to two fonts three at
maximum
I think you can all agree that the
poster design that you can see on the
screen now doesn't look visually
appealing at all and that's obviously
because there are just too many fonts on
it so don't have a crowd your design and
confuse the view of too many different
ones
the fifth tip in today's video on how to
improve your typography is to have a
layout in mind before you make the
design using grids and guides is
essential for really improving a
typography but try to have a kind of set
alignment system for your design in mind
this helps keep everything visually
appealing it just makes your designs
neat and professional
so as you can see here I've got a
sensual alignment on my design
keeping certain aspects of the design in
line and in line with guides having a
grid system creates visual harmony and I
highly recommend giving some thought to
the grid system that you're going to use
for your design you can really help tie
everything together on your design and
of course with something like a magazine
layout this is super essential to keep
design elements together in columns the
last tip in today's video and how to
improve your typography is actually a
list of resources one of those resources
you can see on screen now and that is a
collection of designs entirely based
around typography if you absorb quality
typography design and typography art on
a regular basis you're going to gain a
better understanding and a better eye
for typography so I highly suggest you
take a look at the links in description
box below
because there are some games some
resources and other cool things all
related to typography so there was
today's video and if you do want to
check out more typography based videos
on my channel also check the links down
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