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Brushpen casuals by Wayne Thompson

Casual Letters with a Brush Pen

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Do you love looking at those online videos of old sign painters creating cool lettering? Now you can learn how it’s constructed and do it yourself, using nothing more than a brush pen. Sign Casuals is a lettering style with lots of tradition but also lots of flexibility. At this workshop you’ll learn the basics of letter construction, methods of creating pen strokes for lively letters, along with techniques for shadowing and embellishment. You’ll also take home some alphabet sample worksheets for practice. Suitable For This class is designed for participants who have a professional or personal interest in typography, art…

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The complete ABCSans font

ABC Custom Font Development

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How do you design your country’s national font? This is the story of the typeface you see above – ABCSans. The ABC is Australia’s most trusted media brand. It is loved for its great content, which is available across multiple devices and platforms. So they set out to create a font family which unifies their digital presence across multiple platforms, while also being best-in-class for legibility and accessibility. It was designed to replace the thousands of font configurations in use across the ABC, allow for a proud, uniquely Australian typographical expression, and align with their charter to deliver content that contributes to our…

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