Typography & Type Design

By Carlos Mendez · 1,680 students enrolled ·
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Skills you'll gain

PhotoshopGraphic designIntermediate

What you'll learn

  • Anatomy of letterforms
  • Classification and history
  • Hierarchy and contrast
  • Readability vs. legibility
  • Font pairing strategies
  • Responsive type scales
  • Vertical rhythm
  • Dark mode typography

Requirements

  • Aimed at a intermediate level
  • Access to Photoshop (free tier is fine)
  • Curiosity and a willingness to practice

This course includes

≈ 3 weeks at 3h/week
  • 9 hours of on-demand video
  • 32 lessons
  • 8 downloadable resources
  • Access on mobile and desktop
  • Full lifetime access
  • Certificate of completion

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Instructor · Carlos Mendez

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About this course

A comprehensive typography course that covers both using type effectively and creating your own. Part 1 teaches typographic hierarchy, font pairing strategies, responsive type scales, and accessibility. Part 2 introduces type design — drawing letterforms, spacing, kerning, and exporting a working font file. You'll analyze 12 real-world typographic systems (Stripe, Apple, The New York Times, Airbnb) to understand how world-class teams make type decisions. Then you'll build your own type system for a fictional product and design a display typeface from scratch. Includes a type pairing cheat sheet with 25 tested combinations and a responsive type scale calculator.

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