Most of the fonts are probably one of these:
Download fonts (password given in class)
Also! We didn’t use this font in our type specimens, but Work Sans might also be a decent match for some of the type in these posters.
In this exercise, we’re going to dissect and recreate three posters or other design artifacts. In doing so, you’ll look for an underlying logic in the existing design, recreate a grid, learn a little about the designers, and consider typographic hierarchy and distinction.
Find posters from this board
For your cover, use the following text:
Type Specimen Your name Fall 2019
In designing your cover:
For your type specimen to successfully work as a book, you’ll need to:
(don’t include the covers or inside covers in your count)
In this extended exercise, we’re designing small type specimen books. In doing so, we’ll build our knowledge of a number of classic/useful typefaces, we’ll add and use some important Indesign skills, we’ll build our abilities to create typographic compositions, and we’ll learn and use the technical skills to assemble all of this into books.
Download Type Specimen Handout
Download Fonts to Use (password given in class)
In these exercise, we’ll keep optically adjusting the space be- tween the letters and words so spacing appears consistent throughout the entire word or line.
We’ll also feel out the appropriate amount of space between letters and words.
Perhaps fifty per cent of the character and integrity of a printed page lies in its letterforms. Much of the other fifty per cent resides in its margins. — Robert Bringhurst
In these exercises, we’ll see changes in the grace and legibility of letterforms as we adjust the spaces between letters, words, and lines of text.