The 17 best typography tutorials

Typography tutorials
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The best typography tutorials used to be littered across the web in their thousands, and all for free. But recently, that's changed. Nowadays, they're mostly made as part of paid-for courses, on platforms such as Skillshare. Which makes sense, because good content costs time and effort to make. 

But if you want to learn the fundamentals of typography, or boost your skills, and you don't have money to spend, what can you do? To help you out, we've scoured the web to find the best typography tutorials that are actually free.

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Tom May

Tom May is an award-winning journalist and editor specialising in design, photography and technology. Author of the Amazon #1 bestseller Great TED Talks: Creativity, published by Pavilion Books, Tom was previously editor of Professional Photography magazine, associate editor at Creative Bloq, and deputy editor at net magazine. Today, he is a regular contributor to Creative Bloq and its sister sites Digital Camera World, T3.com and Tech Radar. He also writes for Creative Boom and works on content marketing projects. 

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