I've really been enjoying these workshops, although the teacher's slightly insane!!
I've picked up some interesting tips and techniques when it comes to type. Things I'd never thought about before, and things I'd never used or put into practise.
The first thing we looked at was the space between letters in one word. We used kerning to even out the spaces. The first word we were given was 'RAILWAY'. Below are both the normal and the altered word.
The second word we were given was 'PLAYTIME'. We had to do the same thing as before, but using a serif font, just to make it that bit trickier.
We then moved onto two words, so we used our names, just to spice things up a little. We kerned both serid and san serif fonts.
Layout was something that was also addressed. The task was to place 'ONE, TWO THREE and FOUR' in a way that could be read no matter where each was on the page... if that makes sense? So even though 'ONE' was at the bottom, it was still the first thing you read. Although it's not the best design, I still think it works as after reading 'ONE', the eye is drawn up, then across, then up again.
Here's another one of my examples. Again, it's supposed to read, 'ONE, TWO THREE and FOUR'. I used kerning to space out the letters in each word. I thought that perhaps, the closer the letters are, the easier it is to read, therefore 'ONE' would be the first word the eye catches.
The aim of this second workshop was to work our way up to a sentence.
I've picked up some interesting tips and techniques when it comes to type. Things I'd never thought about before, and things I'd never used or put into practise.
The first thing we looked at was the space between letters in one word. We used kerning to even out the spaces. The first word we were given was 'RAILWAY'. Below are both the normal and the altered word.
The second word we were given was 'PLAYTIME'. We had to do the same thing as before, but using a serif font, just to make it that bit trickier. 
We then moved onto two words, so we used our names, just to spice things up a little. We kerned both serid and san serif fonts.
Layout was something that was also addressed. The task was to place 'ONE, TWO THREE and FOUR' in a way that could be read no matter where each was on the page... if that makes sense? So even though 'ONE' was at the bottom, it was still the first thing you read. Although it's not the best design, I still think it works as after reading 'ONE', the eye is drawn up, then across, then up again.
Here's another one of my examples. Again, it's supposed to read, 'ONE, TWO THREE and FOUR'. I used kerning to space out the letters in each word. I thought that perhaps, the closer the letters are, the easier it is to read, therefore 'ONE' would be the first word the eye catches. 
The aim of this second workshop was to work our way up to a sentence. 
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