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5 Design Games to Sharpen Your Skills
Learning new skills in design doesn't have to be boring.
Here are 5 design games to improve your creative and cognitive skills.
Let’s get started.
1. Shape Type
Shape Type is a letter-shaping game where you adjust anchors to form each letter accurately.
Playing around with letter shapes in this way can be incredibly helpful for branding projects.
2. Color
This game trains your eye to recognize hues, saturation, and colour schemes, including complementary, analogous, triadic, and tetradic colours.
It’s fun and practical — my favourite part was getting better at identifying colours 😅.
Overall, it’s a fantastic way to hone your sense of colour.
3. The Bezier Game
In my opinion, The Bezier Game is one of the best ways to master the pen tool. (P.S. I learned the pen tool from this game and a few YouTube videos.)
Bezier Games take you from basic shapes to challenging ones, gradually building your confidence with the pen tool.
It’s a must-learn skill for any designer, giving you the freedom to create just about anything.
4. Kerntype
As the name suggests, Kerntype helps you develop an eye for kerning in typography. In this game, you’ll practice judging the space between letters.
Often, spacing cannot be achieved through equal distribution alone in design tools, and this game will help you spot…
