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Improper kern­ing

A clever idea, kem­ing, a new typo­graphic term mean­ing that kern­ing has gone bad. I found this on Ironic Sans. But­tons, t-shirts and more can be bought with this pun at Cafepress.com.

Grid Sys­tems – Mak­ing grids in Illus­tra­tor 2

There is hardly a one grid sys­tem that works for every­thing or every­body. Dif­fer­ent needs call for dif­fer­ent grids. Grids that involve cer­tain rules, like pro­por­tions being by the Golden Rule are very com­plex to cal­cu­late and really dif­fi­cult and time con­sum­ing to adapt to any page size. Con­tinue reading…

Grid Sys­tems – Mak­ing grids in Illustrator

Design­ing within a grid sys­tem involves defin­ing the mate­r­ial you are going to work with, defin­ing the page size, mak­ing a pro­por­tional grid onto the space and then fit­ting your design into the grid. Hav­ing a good grid sys­tem will speed up the work process so it’s always wise to spend a lit­tle time on the grid first.

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