Type 1, Fall 2019

November 19, 2019

Variable Fonts

Variable fonts are fonts that have multiple weights, widths, slants, or other variants in one font file. They’ll often enable you to nearly infinitely adjust the width or weight of the type you’re using.

I’ve gathered a set of type for you to test out and use in this project. These are all open source or otherwise free fonts. Install them using FontBook as you would install any font.

Download variable font test set

If you forget how to use these in Illustrator, see the screenshot here.

November 13, 2019

Week 12 Day 2

Today in class, we are:

Looking at your initial poster studies

Finishing Helvetica and discussing it

Finishing any revisions on Dissect posters

Working on new poster studies!

For next time:

Create 5 or more studies/prototypes from the new prompts (use at least two of the prompts)

Note: your studies need to specifically respond to a prompt

November 13, 2019

Poster, Pt. 2

We’re continuing to make typographic studies for the poster’s content.

After making a number of studies – some complementary, some at odds with one another – we’ll have a chaotic mass of different ideas, different typographic ideas, and different pieces.

We’ll assess and weed through this mass. We’ll cut some ideas out. We’ll cultivate others. Then we’ll wrestle order out of this chaos.

Create five or more posters from the following studies
(do at least two of the studies)

Download Poster Pt. 2 Handout

For the Hand-Set Digital Study

Download type for Hand-Set Digital Study

examples for Hand-Set Type

November 11, 2019

Week 12 Day 1

Today in class, we are:

Looking at finished Dissect posters

Talking about our Poster project

Going over some conceptual and technical details for the Poster project

Working!

For next time:

Bring in 4 or more studies for the Contrast studies

Read:

In Thinking With Type, Grid: 151–169, 176–201
(this is really just the whole Grid chapter, skipping the Grid as Table section)

November 11, 2019

Project: Poster

In this project, we’ll design a bunch of posters! We’ll go through a number of prompts/methods for designing a poster. In each of these, you’ll create a few studies/prototypes. Once that’s done, we’ll pick the strongest of those directions and use that to create a series of three posters.

Download Poster Project Handout

Download Sporting Grotesque

November 11, 2019