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Typography

 Typography

By Broc Sears

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  1. DESIGN BASIC TRAINING TYPOGRAPHY “ As the saying goes, type

    is a beautiful group of letters, not a group of beautiful letters.” Matthew Carter British typographer and designer
  2. DESIGN BASIC TRAINING TYPOGRAPHY “ Faces of type are like

    men’s faces. They have their own expression ; their complexion and peculiar twists and turns of line identify them immediately to friends, to whom each is full of identity.” ­ J. L. Frazier 1925 volume, Type Lore
  3. DESIGN BASIC TRAINING TYPOGRAPHY “Typography is what language looks like.”

    Ellen Lupton curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
  4. DESIGN BASIC TRAINING TYPOGRAPHY A “typeface”, “font face” or “font

    family” includes all letters of a given alphabet, all the punctuation marks, all numbers and a selected set of symbols. Helvetica, Arial, Times, Blippo. A font used to be the differing attributes such as “weight,” “style,” “size” etc. Today a font refers to the digital file that directs the computer how to display and print the type.
  5. DESIGN BASIC TRAINING TYPOGRAPHY Times Garamond Caslon Serifs Traditional Elegant

    Institutional Conservative Formal Authority Easy to read text
  6. DESIGN BASIC TRAINING TYPOGRAPHY Arial Gothic Calibri Modern Mechanical Open

    Young Casual Inform Easy to read signage Sans Serifs
  7. DESIGN BASIC TRAINING TYPOGRAPHY Diverse Artsy Entertaining Niche Restrictive Dangerous

    Best in short headlines, wordmarks Birch Bauhaus Gigi Script Decorative
  8. DESIGN BASIC TRAINING TYPOGRAPHY Jim’s Gym Jim’s Gym Jim’s Gym

    Jim’s Gym Jim’s Gym Jim’s Gym Personality
  9. DESIGN BASIC TRAINING TYPOGRAPHY Tracking A feature in InDesign that

    uniformly adds or subtracts the same units of space between letters. Kerning A process that adds or subtracts the units of space between letter pairs.
  10. DESIGN BASIC TRAINING TYPOGRAPHY Kerning How much should I kern?

    Modestly. Until you have the perception that spacing is consistent. Should I kern text upside down? If it works for you!
  11. DESIGN BASIC TRAINING TYPOGRAPHY NEXT 9 Welcome and introductions 9:20

    What the heck is visual communication? 9:40 Principles and fundamentals 10:40 Break 10:50 Typography 11:40 The creative process 12:30 Lunch 1 10 things you can do to improve advertising 1:50 Break 2 10 things you can do to improve editorial 2:50 Break 3 10 things you can do to improve other stuff 4 Close
  12. DESIGN BASIC TRAINING TYPOGRAPHY THEN 9 Welcome and introductions 9:20

    What the heck is visual communication? 9:40 Principles and fundamentals 10:40 Break 10:50 Typography 11:40 The creative process 12:30 Lunch 1 10 things you can do to improve advertising 1:50 Break 2 10 things you can do to improve editorial 2:50 Break 3 10 things you can do to improve other stuff 4 Close