Wednesday, 21 October 2009

More type?

YES! :D
So this was the 3rd session with the nutty man. We were made to work with paragraphs today! :O
It wasn't too bad. Rather enjoyable actually.
So yeah, we were given one paragraph and had the task to fit it in one column of a certain size using size, leading and kerning. Simples!
The next two columns were adapted to how we thought it'd look best if it were to be in a magazine.
I learnt that the smaller the writing, the better... as long as you can read it that is! Type in a magazine has no need to be over size 10/11pt! No one's gonna want to read it from across the room, are they??

The next task was to stretch the same piece of text across different sized columns (below)
Again, using point size, kerning and leading, we had to adapt the writing. It had to be legible, but could be as big or small as needed. Taking into account, again, that text doesn't need to be huge (if to be read in a magazine for example) I stuck to a safe ranging between 10 and 13. Still, 13's a little too big. So it could have done with being made smaller. Nevermind!!



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