Monday, September 30, 2013
My typography monster
In my typography monster is used the boldness of the font to show the black but still let the white shine through almost like sunlight going through trees.
Monday, September 23, 2013
Thursday, September 19, 2013
Typography Worksheet:
Write out the answers to these questions in complete
sentences.
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Label and define all of the above numbers:
1. ascender line - the imaginary line which determines the
height of ascenders.
2. base line - the imaginary line on which all characters rest. Descenders hang below the base line.
3. ascender height - the x-height plus the height of the ascending stroke. It’s the distance between the base line and the ascender line.
4. cap height - the height of capital letters. It is the distance between the base line and the cap line.
5. descender - the stroke of a letter which dips below the base line, as in the letters g and j
6. ascender - the stroke of a letter which rises above the mean line, as in the letters d, f and k.
7. x-height - the distance between the flat top and bottom of a lower case letter which has no ascender of descender
8. cap line - the imaginary line which determines the height of capital letters
9. mean line - the imaginary line which determines the height of a lowercase letter.
10. descender line - the imaginary line which defines the bottom reach of descenders
2. base line - the imaginary line on which all characters rest. Descenders hang below the base line.
3. ascender height - the x-height plus the height of the ascending stroke. It’s the distance between the base line and the ascender line.
4. cap height - the height of capital letters. It is the distance between the base line and the cap line.
5. descender - the stroke of a letter which dips below the base line, as in the letters g and j
6. ascender - the stroke of a letter which rises above the mean line, as in the letters d, f and k.
7. x-height - the distance between the flat top and bottom of a lower case letter which has no ascender of descender
8. cap line - the imaginary line which determines the height of capital letters
9. mean line - the imaginary line which determines the height of a lowercase letter.
10. descender line - the imaginary line which defines the bottom reach of descenders
Define Serif: Basic. Many weight variants as well
Define Sans-Serif: The sans-serif font Futura below has a vast type family. It contains many intermediary weights: light, book, medium, bold, and extra bold. It also contains several condensed versions for more slender type.
When do you use Antique Fonts? To evoke a period
At most how many words should be Decorative Fonts at a time? 3
What does a script font resemble? Handwriting
What element of design does script represent? (From elements lesson) lines.
Why use Symbol Fonts? To compliment a specific font.
Define Sans-Serif: The sans-serif font Futura below has a vast type family. It contains many intermediary weights: light, book, medium, bold, and extra bold. It also contains several condensed versions for more slender type.
When do you use Antique Fonts? To evoke a period
At most how many words should be Decorative Fonts at a time? 3
What does a script font resemble? Handwriting
What element of design does script represent? (From elements lesson) lines.
Why use Symbol Fonts? To compliment a specific font.
Define Typography: the art and process of arranging type for
a variety of media purposes and is made up of several parts.
Why do designers need a solid foundation in typography? To make your work look very clean but appealing.
Kerning: Space located between individual letters of a word.
Leading: the space between the lines of text.
Tracking
Why do designers need a solid foundation in typography? To make your work look very clean but appealing.
Kerning: Space located between individual letters of a word.
Leading: the space between the lines of text.
Tracking
When do you use the following?
Center Alignment: used to draw attention and is used a majority of the time for Headlines or Titles.
Right Alignment: clean crisp professional look and is used quite a bit for corporate business letters, return address labels, business cards and a variety of other applications where a formal style of alignment is needed.
Justified Alignment: usually reserved for newspaper print and body text for textbooks, and is more difficult to work with.
Center Alignment: used to draw attention and is used a majority of the time for Headlines or Titles.
Right Alignment: clean crisp professional look and is used quite a bit for corporate business letters, return address labels, business cards and a variety of other applications where a formal style of alignment is needed.
Justified Alignment: usually reserved for newspaper print and body text for textbooks, and is more difficult to work with.
What is remembered: good styling or bad styling? Bad
What is legibility? The quality of being readable or distinguishable by the eye.
Type size smaller than 7pt is: difficult to read
Type size smaller than 3pts is: utterly illegible
Type range for legible type is: 8pt – 14pt
What do you use for long passages? serif
What case do we use for Body? Upper and lower
What is measure? The width of the text column.
What can you tell me about Ragged Edges? Disrupts the readability
What is legibility? The quality of being readable or distinguishable by the eye.
Type size smaller than 7pt is: difficult to read
Type size smaller than 3pts is: utterly illegible
Type range for legible type is: 8pt – 14pt
What do you use for long passages? serif
What case do we use for Body? Upper and lower
What is measure? The width of the text column.
What can you tell me about Ragged Edges? Disrupts the readability
What are some ways text can be used and what font types do
you use for each? shaping text. Symmetrical and asymmetrical text
**Read ALL of it.
Answer the following: Sets the mood The type is emotional
Why is choosing and using the right font important? (Two
reasons)
- 1. Type is
on the page to serve the text. Easy to read. Should not overpower the
text.
What is appropriate? What do you have to consider? - There
are no GOOD and BAD typefaces
What are the two most important things to remember?
What is appropriate? What do you have to consider?
What is appropriate? What do you have to consider?
Tell me the rules: (there
are 10)
- Body
text should be between 10 and 12 point.
- Use
enough leading .
- Don’t
make your lines too short or too long.
- Make
paragraph beginnings clear.
- Use
only one space after a period, not two.
- Don’t
justify text unless you have to.
- Don’t
underline ANYTHING.
- Use
italics instead of underlines
- Don’t
set long blocks of text in italics, bold, or all caps because they’re
harder to read.
- Leave
more space above headlines and subheads than below them, and avoid setting
them in all caps
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