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Tutorial : "Hacking Typography in Satori."

A Five Part, Step-by-Step guide to Creating Letterforms.

By Michael Hirsh.

Part Five. Page 1 of 1

 

The Letter "H"

This letter is in the simplest of all the four classes described in the Introduction.
It is constructed entirely with straight lines, and contains no counter.

In fact, it's so simple that, if you use all the methods and settings from the previous three parts of this tutorial, it only needs minimal text to describe.

Step One: Draw the shape

Use the Irregular Polygon tool.
Keep the gap between the upright strokes the same thickness as the strokes themselves.

Click, click, click, etc.,

Render it...

Fill 'er up with yellow.

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Step Two: Copy the Layer

Edit the object in the lower layer, and change its colour to black, then move it South one cell and East one cell.

Offset the drop shadow.

Step Three: Body Ornaments

Switch to the top Layer, and copy the yellow body object. Change it from Filled to Outline, with Outline Width = 7, and Style = Solid. Colour = Black. This creates the Outline.

And then do the inline Airbrush shadows. The settings for the inline ornament are: Outline Width = 12, Style = Airbrush, Colour = Orange.

Finished.

That was quick!

If you have followed the creation of these four letters, A, R, C, and H, you will have gained a useful familiarity with some of the trickier parts of Satori's toolbox. This insight will be useful for many of the Satori projects you undertake, not just typography.

This is the sort of thing you can do with your new headline face. After you've built the whole alphabet, of course.

If you want to review the whole process, go back to the Introduction.

 Click to download the entire tutorial.

Sometime in the future, there will be a follow-on tutorial showing how to place these four letters on a curve. A sort of arch shaped curve.

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