{"id":21736,"date":"2015-03-10T05:00:51","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creativemarket.com\/blog\/?p=21736"},"modified":"2024-04-03T05:38:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T12:38:42","slug":"logo-typography-basics-with-aaron-draplin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creativemarket.com\/blog\/logo-typography-basics-with-aaron-draplin","title":{"rendered":"Crafting Perfect Logo Typography with Aaron Draplin"},"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 logo and type design lesson from from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skillshare.com\/classes\/design\/Logo-Design-the-Draplin-Way-Building-with-Shape-Type-and-Color\/1389209398\">Aaron Draplin<\/a>, of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.draplin.com\">Draplin Design Co<\/a>. 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