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Typography: Ellen Lupton on “Design Better”

In this audio course adapted from the Design Better podcast, designer, bestselling author, and teacher Ellen Lupton shares insights on typography. Hear insights as Ellen discusses the latest edition of her book, Thinking with Type—one of the definitive guides to using typography in visual communication—and learn about typography terminology and vocabulary, typeface purpose and messaging, and type hierarchy. Ellen also explains international typography considerations (and how Latin type is not universal), how typeface differs in a digital context, considerations to pairing fonts, and more.


This course was created by The Curiosity Department. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

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