Typography Task 2 Exercise

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2023.10.23-2023.11.17

Rachel Yeo Rong Qing / 0368901

Typography

Task 2 Exercise

CONTENT





LECTURES

All lectures 1 to 6 completed in Typography Task 1 Exercise

  1. Class Summary

    • Week 5 : Briefing about task 2 and how we go about this assignment.
    • Week 6 : Check our progress about task 2, giving feedback about it and go through the E-portfolio one by one.

INSTRUCTIONS


 

Task 2: Exercise - Type Formatting

Sketches 

Layout Sketches

This rough sketches has be done by using procreate. After proceed to next part, the forth layout has been pass because i found that it is hard to read.


Layout Progress

Layout #1


Fonts :ITC Garomond STD Book Italic, Gil Sans MT Bold, Adobe Caslon Pro Semibold
Point Size : 10pt (body text), 13pt, 52pt and 135pt (heading)
Leading : 12pt (body text), 60pt (heading)
Paragraph spacing : 10pt
Line length : 34pt
Alignment : Left align


Layout #2

Fonts : Universe LT STD 39 Thin Ultra Condessed, ITC Garomond STD (Ultra, Book)
Point Size : 10pt (body text), 13pt, 100pt and 180pt (heading)
Leading : 12pt (body text), 216pt (heading)
Paragraph spacing : 12pt
Line length : 34pt
Alignment : Left align


Layout #3

Fonts : Gill Sans MT Regular, Adobe Caslon Pro (Semibold, Bold)
Point Size : 10pt (body text), 13pt, 126pt and 126pt (heading)
Leading : 12pt (body text), 60pt (heading)
Paragraph spacing : 12pt
Line length : 103pt
Alignment : Left align

Final Task 2 : Typographic Exploration and Communication

Fonts : Universe LT STD 39 Thin Ultra Condessed, ITC Garomond STD (Ultra, Book)
Point Size : 10pt (body text), 13pt, 100pt and 180pt (heading)
Leading : 12pt (body text), 216pt (heading)
Paragraph spacing : 12pt
Line length : 34pt
Alignment : Left align

Final Type Formatting with grid (JPG)



Final Type Formatting with grid (PDF)
Final Type Formatting without grid (JPG)

Final Type Formatting without grid (PDF)


FEEDBACK

Week 6 : 

General Feedback : The ways of leading reader eye is very important.

Specific feedback : Second layout would be nicer. More focus on line length, make sure not more than 65 in one line to ensure better reading experience.

Week 7 : 

General Feedback : Make sure the pdf file in blogger are able to view.

Specific feedback : Final layout is nice, can proceed to update all the thing into blogger.

REFLECTIONS

*Experience

            I have learn about how to create a layout that can be more attractive to reader and take care on reader reading experience. Besides the layout design, I also have learn how to arrange the text nicely and how to according all the rules of typography in type formatting.

    *Observation

            Through this task, I observed that i still need improve the skill on create a nice layout and how too according the rules of typography because when I doing the task I found that I spend a lot of time on let my layout not violate the rules.

    *Findings
            I found that create a nice layout is more difficult than I assume. I should give more effort on learning typography to make my works better.

FURTHER READING

Chapter 3 : Contrast, Page 72

I have learned the contrast between different different font. We can use different font in the layout to let the word we want it to be more attractive having contrast with other word to make that word special and attractive.

Chapter 3 : Contrast, Page 73

I have learned that type to arrange the letter is very important, it can influence to the message you want to deliver to reader and also the meaning of the word.






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