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- Cover
- Title
- Dedication
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- The Typographic Arts: Lettering, Calligraphy & Type Design
- The Process
- Creating Lettering: From Blank Page to Finished Art
- The Tools: Analog
- 1. A hard-cover sketchbook
- 2. A single sheet of dark cover-weight paper
- 3. Tracing paper
- 4. A Small "Jotting Stuff Down" Notebook
- 5. A Small "Ideas" Notebook
- 6. Pencil Case
- 7. 6-inch Ruler
- 8. Blackwing Pencil
- 9. Pencil Extender
- 10. Eraser
- 11. Technical Pencil
- 12. Black Ballpoint Pen
- 13. Brush Pen
- 14. Pencil Sharpener
- 15. Parallel Pens
- 16. Pointed Pens
- 17. Scotch Tape
- The Tools: Digital
- 1. MacBook Pro + Extra Display
- 2. Apple Wireless Keyboard
- 3. Wacom Intuos Medium
- 4. A Solid-State External Hard Drive
- 5. Smartphone
- 6. Kindle Paperwhite
- 7. Laser Printer
- 8. Inkjet Printer
- 9. Good Camera + Tripod
- Software and Services
- 1. Adobe Creative Cloud
- 2. RoboFont
- 3. Reminders
- 4. Apple Calendar + Google Calendars
- 5. Skype
- 6. Dropbox
- 7. Twitter / Instagram / Facebook
- 8. SignNow or DocuSign
- 9. Pinterest
- 10. Scanner Pro
- Research & Brainstorming
- Thumbnails
- Sketching
- Step 1: Setting Up Guide Lines
- Step 2: Choosing Lettering Styles
- Step 3: Lightly Sketching
- The Skeleton
- General Letterform-Drawing Tips
- The Body
- Pen Influence
- Overall Boldness / Weight
- High or Low Contrast
- The Clothes
- Adding Serifs
- Adding Swashes
- Drop Line, Drop Shade, Drop Shadow
- Spurs and Other Fun Stuff
- Step 4: Refined Drawing
- Vector Drawing
- Draw, Rinse, Repeat
- Step 1: Setting Up Guides
- Step 2: The Skeleton
- Proper Point Placement
- Basic Point Plotting
- Plotting Points on Curved Forms
- Find the Extrema
- Pretty Handles
- Rounded Corner Shapes
- Let the Handles Share the Work
- Never Cross the Streams
- Other Vector Lettering Tips
- Square Off Sharp Points
- Create Overlaps to Ease Editing
- Step 3: The Body
- Step 4: The Clothes
- Step 4.5: Draw It Again (Optional)
- Step 5: Adding Color
- Using Global Color Swatches
- The Work
- Process in Action: Differing Steps for Different Projects
- Editorial
- Books
- Advertising
- Logos
- Miscellaneous
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- V
- W
- About the Author
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