EXERCISE 3 | TESTING THE VERTEX THEORY
FIRST POINTS
You are getting ready to place the first anchor points on your lettering piece, but where should they be positioned? The answer to this question is simple: at the peaks. As for the tangents, they should be drawn vertically or horizontally, at both 0° and 90°. This is the basic principle of the vertex theory, also known as the Clockwork method.
5. On this loop, which is the belly of a lowercase “a,” only four points were placed, at the four vertices of the shape. What is more, their tangents are simply vertical and horizontal.
With this vertex theory, you will get perfect curves. If most of the ...
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