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  • Master OpenType text features

    Sam Hampton-Smith shows you how to select, control and adjust your display typography using the features found in the OpenType format.

  • Design organic type

    Sarah Coleman reveals a digital shortcut to recreate an organic hand-made type effect, usually achieved using lots of ink and bleach.

  • OpenType: the fusion of design and technology

    OpenType technology has revolutionised the way designers work with type. Nick Cooke explains how to get maximum benefit from OpenType and enrich your creative output.

  • The language of fonts

    The choice of font can do as much to convey the message of a logo or title as the words themselves. Ed Ricketts spoke to Andrew Altmann about the thinking behind some recent type creations.

  • Designing the Soho Gothic font.

    Monotype designer Sebastian Lester explains the thinking behind Soho Gothic, a typeface intended to perform as well being the backbone of a global brand as it would in an edgy fashion magazine.

  • Digitising a bespoke font

    Typography plays an essential role in branding and communicating a tone of voice. Neutura demonstrates how to convert a font design into a functional typeface.

  • Perfect your kerning skills

    Kerning is crucial to producing beautiful typography. Tom Sewell of Red Design shares his recommendations for perfect letter spacing.

  • Supersize poster creation

    David Frost at AllCity Media shows how the company creates movie posters of dramatically different sizes.

  • Letterhead design

    Letterhead design is the bread and butter of any graphic designer's work, but it's not easy. We show you how to design a beautiful letterhead for output as conventional litho and use as a file by office staff.
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