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Alright designers, it's time to challenge your typographic memory. Do you know your type well enough to recall it 24 hours later?
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[Exercise Your Creative]
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In this episode of Exercise Your Creative,
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we're going to create a custom text lockup for a company called FuturTek.
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FuturTek is currently using Helvetica,
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but wants something original.
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For this project, we're going to use an exercise called
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typography memory inspired by the late and great Eric Speakerman
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or as some of you might know him as the typomaniac.
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This process can be broken down into three easy steps.
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The first step, finding an original font;
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the second step, studying that font;
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and the third and final step, drawing that font from memory 24 hours later.
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I'm going to use a font called Dosis for this project.
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You can find this font in the Google Webfonts Directory.
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Once the font is downloaded, I'm going to open it up
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in Illustrator and compare the old layout with Helvetica
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to the new layout with Dosis.
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Then I'm going to print out the compared fonts
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and use this as a study guide.
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After I've spent some time with the font,
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I'm going to trace the word Futurtek.
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When tracing, I want to pay close attention
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to the font's proportions and curves.
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Because I'm using grid paper,
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I want to keep an eye on the font sizes.
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As I trace, I make small notes of the block heights
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from where the t's end and the widths of the letters.
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After I have completed the studying process,
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I want to put the tracing some place where I can't view it for 24 hours.
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After that 24-hour period,
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I want to draw the letters which I'll need for the word Futurtek.
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These letters are f, u, t, r, e and k.
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Now, let's take those letters and bring them into Illustrator
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to make our final layout.
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This final process is to clean up the font
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and create our vector format.
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Once I have finished cleaning up all the letters,
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I would then want to add an off-set drop shadow
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to give the type a unique look.
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There we have it, our very own custom text lockup.
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This process also comes in handy if you can't afford
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a specific font or if you just want an altered version of your own.
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As always, have fun
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and exercise your creative.
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