Weighting Type | Art Center type & lettering professor, Nils Lindstrom, breaks it down for The Futur



The Futur was fortunate enough to get Art Center professor and calligraphy master, Nils Lindstrom, to come on and help out our community with an invaluable breakdown of how type designers use form to change the weight of their characters while maintaining legibility.

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