Four Quick Tips To Improve Your Typography

We've been hosting some great Typography Critiques lately, and for those of you who don't have the time to join us, here are four quick tips from the second critique that will help you improve your typography today.
00:27 - Mix Up Your Spacing
01:14 - Structure Lists For Legibility
02:40 - Balance The Rag
03:36 - Master Your Foundations
If you'd like to watch the FULL critiques, we have a playlist for you here - bit.ly/TypeCrit_PL
👉 Check out our Typography Course here - bit.ly/Type01_yt
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✏️ Watch the FULL critiques on our playlist here - bit.ly/TypeCrit_PL 👉 Check out our Typography Course here - bit.ly/Type01_yt

[@viraj7311]

Which font did you use for this?

[@curtiscarpenter9881]

Use typography to make this video... the writings on the wall.📨📨🗂📡🔏🎖

[@mefanfauziah4690]

bro...can you translate by indonesia?

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Mark please make this for all 7 videos, summaries of all the important points they discussed in bite size pieces! We(me and my 1 friend in the world) would absolutely love it!

[@TheFuturAcademy]

working on it.

[@SvntHoly]

Check out this typography.. Constructive criticism only😋 kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqTGoZyva5yhfbc

[@carlagraca6022]

This is great! I was about to go over all the Typography critiques and make my annotations and you just saved me up a lot of time! Thank you for this great video!

[@TheFuturAcademy]

I'm so glad!

[@aarushitewari2384]

I was really looking for a video like this. Thank you!

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Living up to your name as an academy, awesome video 💯

[@TheFuturAcademy]

I appreciate that!

[@SvntHoly]

Check out this typography.. Constructive criticism only😋 kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqTGoZyva5yhfbc

[@ncs737]

Great summary! These live videos are my favorite to watch during the week- yhup I just confesses that 🤓

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These short videos make me wanna watch them 🤣 and not run away

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Thank you guys for sharing helps me become a better designer day by day

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Glad you like them!

[@wrdj3094]

Haven't gotten past the intro yet... I've watched the first 2 seconds a few times now. Love the motion graphic.

[@trishitajain3855]

You guys are amazing and make it so simple to learn ...I went to a design school in India..but we were never taught in such fine details ....learning so much from your videos ...blessings to you guys

[@EPHONIC]

Composing type is like composing music. There needs to be purposeful rhythm and a pattern that becomes recognizable as patterns create unity. This can be interrupted at times with something that violates the pattern that has been established which creates contrast and a point of interest.

[@dubaigeek1988]

This was insightful

[@jesshh82]

Hi- I love the videos. They are very informative for beginners and all digital designers. I'm doing Graphic Design and Media at UAL university in London. I was wondering what graphic tablet do you guys use in the studio? Many thanks :)

[@infographie]

Excellent.

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amazing resume ..I started with layout designing and I made 300 layout in 15 day. but its not good lol

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[@sjoerd.2004]

Man that thumbnail though👌

[@danielayala3170]

I need to learn typesetting is there course online that you can recommend?

[@longdang1119]

Hi Chris. A small question if you don't mind. My customers are from Vietnam and they don't like modern design features like negative space or double or quadruple the font sizes and so on. They don't see it as beautiful but instead ugly. They are used to put stuffs into tight spaces and can't stand blank spaces. How can I persuade them? Or how can I apply some of your rules into this "Asian tight style" and still make something beautiful?

[@hunkosaurusrex]

It is difficult to offer advice for a written language I am not familiar with, but, I am familiar with Chinese newsletters and I see that text is very tight and compacted. But Chinese have ads that use open space, to simplify and capture more for us on the product. What kind of design/media are you working on? Newspaper or invite or something else? Try focusing on a few parts of the text and make that but there and reduce the least important to smaller text to creat a bit more breathing room. Tell them this helps the eyes of the reader to have their focal point stand out far more than being crammed in.

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Can u please give some Tips and TuTorials on Calligraphy ....How to go in flow through Calligraphy Subject 😎😎😎😁😁

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[@johnong2655]

Understanding GOOD vs BAD Rag. Not everything needs Justified paragraph. Need to tell that to my manager

[@danilo6217]

Its okay to hyphenate words on left aligned texts?

[@TheFuturAcademy]

yes.

[@hunkosaurusrex]

It depends if your client wants it or not.

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[@hunkosaurusrex]

The biggest mistake is using Adobe Illustrator for text. Adobe InDesign is far better for skilled graphic designers who handle and respect the options in the study of typography. Tip 2 You made a mistake by having the third column longer/taller than the first two. That mistake might be acceptable for Asian languages going vertical, even if it was in say Japanese, it would have to appear intentional, and this case doesn't. Tip 4 The BLT analogy is confusing in how it relates to typography. A better analogy I use is a totem or ladder. I tell people to break down the importance of the various parts of information in the provided text. What is important? For example: In the invite you were asked to design, is the time more important than the date or location? If yes, how can you make it stand out from the other text? In this case, "time" is at the top of the ladder and the rest is arranged into the ladder from most to least important. You can now play around with your ladder structure and know the focus points so you don't give power to the least important. Foundation is more about media type (poster, book, web), colors and font choices, not structure. Foundation: house, at the beach, glass and metal, oceanic colors Structure: where will the roof go? Will the glass type change your designs? Circling back to the analog, Typography will now use the above foundation elements to answer the questions and make a structure based on what is important to communicate.

[@RomboutVersluijs]

What the lady says at point 1 is kinda weird. That order can be swapped perfectly, I've seen that in many designs. Ive also seen Chris use this in design in other videos. Its also in the video tuts from Typography 01 - The Futur.

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[@TheFuturAcademy]

We feel that Typography is a foundational skill all graphic designers should know. In that case, we do recommend the Typography course: bit.ly/Type01_yt But if you want to learn the software, check out our friend Dan Scott's courses: byol.me/thefutur

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noice

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Hola! :)

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What Headphones Are Those???

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The first comment!

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hello

[@dhirajkadam2469]

Is this a result of Chris noticing flaws in 2 Logo therapy sessions or just a coincidence? 😂🤷🏻‍♀️

[@MrSzwarz]

Bad typography, is so common, and designers tend to call it "experimental" or "deconstructive", but it is simply illegible, and chaotic for reader.

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Sub spanish

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Me who type "gacha typography" and got this: 🌝👍

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5th rule: Don't use Comic Sans.

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It's the "Futur Academy" logo. And no, you're not the only one :)

[@iamzerofficial]

Some serious group think in the comments ; shits hella basic. Show us something that has nothing to do w/ Helvetica. Can you?