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Typography

Typography. The art of using text to produce professional looking publications. Wording that can be the same. Font is also commonly called type or text They all mean the same thing You can say font face or type face but they mean the same thing. Font/Type.

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Typography

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  1. Typography The art of using text to produce professional looking publications.

  2. Wording that can be the same • Font is also commonly called type or text • They all mean the same thing You can say font face or type face but they mean the same thing

  3. Font/Type Fonts are categories of text. Common groups of fonts include: • Times New Roman • Arial • Garamond • Script • Comic

  4. Font/Type Families Fonts are grouped into families and given a name: • Arial • Garamond • Comic • Times

  5. Within a Font/Type Family there can be many members including: • Arial Black • Arial Narrow • Arial Rounded MT Bold • Arial Unicode MS It’s like your own Family. We have the Smith family Dad- Frank Smith Mom- Mary Smith Son- Sam Smith Each are part of the Smith family but they are all individuals (type style) who have the same last name.

  6. Font/Type Style • Styles are applied to fonts to change the way they look. Examples of the most common type styles include: • Bold • Italics • Book • Round • Heavy

  7. If you have a type style you have: • Sam Smith with cowboy appeal • Mary Smith with Gothic appeal • Frank Smith with Business appeal You can take away their styles but they are still members of the Smith family.

  8. Typeface • A font/type becomes a typeface/ font face once a style has been applied to it. For example; • Arial Italic • Times New Roman narrow • Rockwell Extra Bold

  9. Family • + • Style • =Type/Font Face

  10. Fonts are used to help create a moodor a feeling in a publication. Fonts can also limit or enhance readability so choose your fonts carefully.

  11. Use if you have lots of type you want people to actually read: Serif Serifs on lowercase letters are slanted Diagonal stress Oldstyle Goudy Thick/thin transition in strokes

  12. Modern • Not good choices for extended amounts of body copy • Thin lines almost disappear, thick lines are prominent • Effect on the page is called “dazzling”

  13. Serif • Used in children’s books because of clean, straightforward look • Examples: • Times New Roman • Californian

  14. Sans Serif • “sans” (without) in French • No thick/thin transition • Same thickness all the way around • Great for creating eye-catching pages

  15. Script • Like cheesecake- they should be used sparingly so nobody gets sick

  16. Decorative • Easy to identify. If the thought of reading an entire book in that font makes you want to throw up, it falls under decorative. • Fun, distinctive • Powerful use is limited • Often used in headlines Juice Chillycooldots

  17. Serif or Sans Serif • Serif • A typeface with lines on curves extending from the ends of the letters A B C a b c

  18. Serif or Sans Serif • Sans Serif • A typeface that is straight-edged A B C a b c

  19. a x c All About Letters • x-height • The height of the body of all lowercase letters such as the letter x in a typeface. All lower case letters are designed to be no taller then the x-height. • Baseline • An imaginary horizontal line on which the bottom of letters rest.

  20. b x h Parts of Letters • Ascender • The lowercase letter that extend above the x-height – b, d, f, h, and l

  21. g x j Parts of Letters • Descender • The lowercase letters that fall below the baseline – g, j, p, and q

  22. Anatomy of Text

  23. Drop Caps • A design element in which a letter (usually the first letter of the paragraph) is much larger font and embedded into the surrounding text.

  24. Character Spacing • Tracking • A feature that enables you to adjust the relative space characters for selected text • Adjusts the space between a group of characters or words (applied to the whole word)

  25. Character Spacing • Kerning • The process of “fine tuning” spacing by adjusting the space between characters • Adjusts the space between two characters

  26. Leading The vertical distant between base heights adjusts the space between lines

  27. Alignment • The placement of text or graphics relative to the margins. • Left • Right • Centered • Justified

  28. Reverse Type • Reverse Type • White or light colored text that appears against a darker background Reverse Type

  29. Leaders • Dots, dashes, or characters that proceed text or a tab setting.

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