{"id":20805,"date":"2015-02-18T06:00:47","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T14:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creativemarket.com\/blog\/?p=20805"},"modified":"2024-04-03T03:50:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T10:50:02","slug":"lettering-and-font-design-basics-from-jessica-hische","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creativemarket.com\/blog\/lettering-and-font-design-basics-from-jessica-hische","title":{"rendered":"Lettering and Font Design Basics from Jessica Hische"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re teaming up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skillshare.com\">Skillshare<\/a> to bring you some fantastic design tutorials. Today, we&#8217;ve got a lesson from the extremely talented type designer, Jessica Hische. In the video below, she discusses letterform basics and walks you through some unexpected surprises regarding how letters are constructed. 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