I have to clarify something so last week we talked about typologists and we were we were talking about

we're talking about like the different things about typography and I made the comment that if people haven't been to an

art school or to taking art classes or type classes, they may not understand the

things that were in the type menu in Photoshop or illustrator.

What I meant was that they may not have the vocabulary to look at that and understand what each one of those

things mean.

Not that you're not incapable.

And somebody sent me a message and they took offense, it seemed like they took offense to me

saying that because they were able to learn it on their own

and they kind of rejected the idea that you had to go to school

to be able to learn those things.

That is absolutely not what I meant.

What I meant is sometimes within any given skill set or like a thing that you want to learn there's

there's kind of like custom vocabulary that's built into those things like the

word kerning you wouldn't know the what the word Kearning meant from going through elementary

in middle school, right? Because that's just not a word that is relevant in anything else other

than typography that I'm aware of. So not that you don't understand what

Kearning is, but you may not have the association of the word and the

definition until you get exposed to it by somebody teaching you, which I think is what we were trying to do last week was like,

hey, here's some things that you can know so you don't have to go to school to understand what these things mean.

So I was not at all saying that you have to go to design school to be able to do good type or to understand it.

That was just, yeah, got misunderstood, so I wanted to call that out.

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