Archive for March, 2009
Clearly I’ve taken this book to heart. Display type 72 pt U/lc (uppercase and lowercase) all caps Observe letterspacing! Others! Observer readability and how colored backgrounds affect serifs! Text type 11 pts justified Experiment with letterspacing, tracking (wordspacing)! Try to vary measure length and see what happens! Garamond Helvetica
It was brief. The guy I was in touch with while my visa was in processing left the school recently so the domestic recruitment coordinator came out to meet me. She was really nice and listened to my questions. I asked about getting a school ID and requesting a term schedule and she told me [...]
Orphan – a short line that appears at the top of a column and is usually the last line of a paragraph from the preceding column. Widow – a short line at the end of a paragraph Ignoring widows and orphans is not an option. From Designing with type by James Craig (chapter 3, p69)
Type size – a smaller text size generally requires more linespacing to make it readable x-height – typefaces (such as Helvetica and Century Expanded), have large x-heights and require more linespacing Line length – increase linespacing for lines longer than approximately 75 characters to prevent doubling Vertical stress – letters with strong vertical stress also [...]
So I’m well into the first book on my list, Designing with type: The Essential Guide to Typography. This book is a mine of information and it’s not overwhelming at all, you just keep reading and reading and you learn! One very useful thing I have learned: the letters that will provide me the most [...]
I arrived in Melbourne a few days ago and have been occupying myself with setting down into a routine. We’re moving house next weekend so I can’t settle down completely just yet. Today I managed to borrow some books from the city library and I may have gone a bit overboard and checked out several [...]
The school calendar starts in February but my student visa wouldn’t have been approved in time so I had to defer to the next intake, which is April. I’m flying to Melbourne tomorrow and will be enrolled in a 2-year diploma course on graphic arts and multimedia starting April 20. This blog is meant to [...]
