Eye-catching letter design

There are eye-catching characters such as products you like to buy at convenience stores, signs that pass by on the street, drama titles, movie posters, etc. Letter design is closely related to our lives. You can create your own letter design that captivates you!

More power than letters

The task of creating a harmonious Hangul design is not as easy as you might think. I'll show you how to get started with Hangul design through the experience and knowledge I've gained from working on font design for a long time!

Beginner: I need to design the papaya package in Korean. 😣 I'll also refer to the existing fonts. I also looked for a lot of references. 🤗 When I saw the data, I came up with a lot of ideas and lettering. 😃 I think substituting the fruit shape with “” would be amazing! 🤔 You can start Hangul lettering right away, right?! 😃

Are you working like this? When you just work... don't you often get the job you want? Many people draw up an idea and then immediately envision and sketch the result. However, there are steps you must go through before sketching or doing digital work. This is the step of specifically designing a letter design.

The shape I was amazed at is part of this design process. I'm trying to develop the entire lettering with only a few parts, so of course it's hard to get the work I want. ”The Taste of Font: Hangul Design Master Class” In, you can learn step by step through the development process of Hangul design that beginners may miss.

I'm Sui & Jerry, the current type designer

Sui is currently working as a freelance type designer after focusing on branding at Doosan Dong-A, Yoon Design Institute, and is currently teaching Hangul lettering offline.

• Yojo ”Make it sparkle” album title
• JTBC Han Ki Choo Show title
• Nongshim Squid Champon Package Title
• ORION CREAM PIE PACKAGE TITLE
• TVN drama great show title
• Lotte World Blooming Season Promotion Title
• Samsung Card Ajinyan collaborates on the title
• Amorepacific Pretty April Promotion Title

Jerry has created exclusive fonts and in-house fonts for various brands at Yoon Design, and is currently working as an independent type designer.

📍 Yoon Design's own typeface: Yoon Gu-rim 700, Sunshine 2, independent entity, and Yoon Myeong-jo 700 web font development and participation

📍 Proceed and participate in font projects dedicated to many companies

• 9px
• SuperM Hangul Font
• ABOFRANDS
• Lineage M2
• Black desert
• Bingrece, Binggrece2
• Lotte Duty Free My Lotte
• Goyang City Goyang Body

For those who design Hangul for the first time

While preparing for Hangul design classes for a long time, we thought about it from the student's point of view. From a beginner's point of view, I thought I should systematically create Hangul design from the basics Self-created introductory materials for beginners to maximize learning through online classesI made it.

✅ textbook <Font taste: Hangul Design Primer >

📍 Learn Hangul by drawing

<Taste of Font: Through the Hangul Design Primer >, you will learn how to design strokes and character structures by drawing directly following Hangul designs in a sequential manner. We will help beginners get started quickly and easily by going step by step. Start designing Hangul in a systematic manner with a practice-oriented textbook!

Why should I learn these things?

Visual harmony of characters is important in Hangul design work. Therefore, training to cultivate the eye is necessary. Training involves learning to observe letters based on drawing and learning letters. I will tell you in detail what parts to observe and draw for each font, and “what should I learn” from those observations.

“Professor Kim Jin-pyeong, the godfather of Hangul lettering, said something like this. No matter how ingenious your personality is expressed without balance and harmony as a letter, it's like building a house on sand.” The basic steps will also be of great help to those who have been building a stunning house on the sand.

📍 Basic Edition/Application Edition

<The Taste of Font: A Primer on Hangul Design> It consists of a basic edition/application section, and in the basic section, you will learn the theory of font design in detail, and get used to character design and sketching by drawing and learning Hangul. In the application, you will be able to fully practice learning stroke expression, drawing strokes, drawing characters, and structural design. If you fill in the textbook while watching the class video Designed to help you master the basic steps of Hangul designIt became.

Learn practical skills by doing!

Once you've completed the introductory level, you'll move on to the practical level. The practical stage consists of three stages: ideation, lettering, and font, and you can learn more about lettering development and font design.

You can learn character design tips from practitioners, such as differences between Hangul lettering and font design, tips for finding impressions of characters in ideation, tips for analyzing characters in lettering and fonts, useful tips for deriving characters, precautions for developing, how to set up a workspace in font design, and points to be aware of when creating TTF. Learn how to create unique lettering and font designs in “Taste of Font: Hangul Design Master”, and even create font files with short sentences!

📍 Lettering is the work of creating characters according to a limited set of phrases by adding unique and diverse expressions. In the “Taste of Font” class, we will try to complete the lettering with 3 to 7 characters or less.

📍 Font design is the process of creating characters from 2350 to 11172 characters in a balanced and harmonious manner based on a solid design. In the “Font Taste” class, we plan to create a Hangul font design of around 20 characters.

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Make your own artwork

Try making it!

Simply learning tools such as Photoshop and illustration will not improve your design skills. It is possible to grow through steady work by knowing the principles. The same goes for letters. If you carefully understand and learn the principles and systems of character design through “Taste of Font: Hangul Design Master”, you will be able to make it a weapon that can be used in practice even after stubbornness, upgrade your visual artwork, or enrich your portfolio. Systematic with Sui&Jerry Take the first step in Hangul design!

Adobe illustrator

Version: CC 2019 or higher

https://www.adobe.com/

It is the most popular vector drawing program.

It is a program that can be used for both WIN and MAC.

Glyphs (glyphs)

version 2.6.5 or later

https://glyphsapp.com/

This is a MAC only program.

Grips is a font design program with an interface similar to Illustrator, making it more accessible than other font design programs. Glips, like an illustrator, is a tool for drawing vectors.It is a program that allows you to create font files (TTF) in detail in Glips, such as adjusting the handle and keyboard of paths and refining numerical values, which is not possible in Illustrator.

Grips has a 30-day trial version, and <Font Taste: Hangul Design Master> When you listen to the class Download the 30-day trial first to learnIf you need it in the future, we recommend that you purchase it through the GLIPS website.