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Hi there!
I'm a 3d motion designer learning more about Typography, an interest of mine which sadly has not been of great importance in the projects that I do for work.
So while I have some spare time I'd like to re-educate myself and learn how to use it better.
For starters I have question about tracking and kerning.
Often when I kern and track some letters, I do it by eye, but who knows if I have a good eye for this sort of detail? ;)
I'm wondering are there any good online resources that can show me good kerning/tracking and perhaps show me a few do's and don'ts?
Also any books perhaps?
Thanks!
24 Jul 2010 — 3:41pm
Start here...
http://www.thetypestudio.com/
24 Jul 2010 — 5:48pm
Aw, glad to help out here, 'cause I asked almost the same thing a while ago.
A lot of links are in here: http://typophile.com/node/69671 (I'd especially recommend going to your library and picking up a copy of 'Letters of Credit'; it did help me)
Briem has some nice tips, too: http://briem.net/2/2.3.1a/2.3.1.01.notes.htm
Maybe also check out the description of iKern's algorithm here: http://ikern.com/k1/the-tool/
Hope this helps.
29 Jul 2010 — 5:39am
Thanks for that :)
I'll have a look at those resources and meanwhile I'm studying how others have used typefaces in their works.
Hope to be able to improve real soon ;)