T YPOGRAPHY JOURNAL 2016
TYPE II JOURNAL
LEANN HILLEGAS WINTER 2017
INTRODUCTION This journal is a combination of all of the notes and projects I have gathered from winter quarter 2017 in Typography II. Throughout this course, I have developed new skills in understanding hierarchy, typefaces, grids, color, and overall layout in design. I now recognize how important typography is and I am excited to enhance my learning and experiences in the future. This journal is for me to look back on in case I need to refresh my memory and it is also a friendly reminder of how I designed in 2017.
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READINGS Butterick’s Practical Typography: Typography in Ten Minutes Summary of Key Rules Foreward Type Composition How Type Families Work Page Layout Using Layout Grids Effectively Typographica Mea Culpa, Unethical Downloading Lava Gratuitous Type Magazine Beauty and Ugliness in Type Design An Idea of a Typeface Eric Gill got it wrong; a re-evaluation of Gill Sans 6
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TYPOGRAPHY IN TEN MINUTES How to be a better typographer than 95% of professional writers and 70% of professional designers.
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Font Choice
Most important element of your design, so make it look good.
10-12 pt for print, 15-25 px for web. This can change determining on the typeface.
120–145% of the point size.
Average of 45–90 characters per line
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SUMMARY OF KEY RULES • Put only one space bet ween sentences. • Never use underlining, unless it’s a hyperlink. • Use centered text sparingly. • If you don’t have real small caps, don’t use them at all. • Use 5–12% extra letterspacing with all caps and small caps. • Use first-line indents that are one to four times the point size of the text, or use 4–10 points of space bet ween paragraphs. But don’t use both. • If you use justified text, also turn on hyphenation. • Use ampersands sparingly, unless included in a proper name. • Use proper trademark and copyright symbols—not alphabetic approximations. • Put a nonbreaking space after paragraph and section marks. • Make ellipses using the proper character, not periods and spaces. • Make sure apostrophes point downward. • Make sure foot and inch marks are straight, not curly.
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FOREWARD Erik Spiekermann
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The visual component of the written word. – Butterick
Type is visible language. – Spiekermann
The point of typography is to enhance communication by designing a legible representation. Body text may be readable, but if put against the wrong color of text or in the wrong size, it can become difficult to understand. Butterick supports the idea of typography being an element that reinforces the meaning of the text opposite to worrying if the layout is good looking.
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TYPE COMPOSITION • Straight Quotes: Two generic vertical quotation marks located near the return key. • Curly Quotes: The quotation marks used in good typography. There are four curly quote characters: the opening single quote, the closing single quote, the opening double quote, and the closing double quote. • Trademark symbol (™), registered trademark symbol (®), and a copyright symbol (©). When you need these symbols, use them. Don’t use goofy alphabetic approximations like (TM) or (c). • Ellipsis: A sequence of three dots used to indicate an omission in quoted material. They should be used instead of just periods and spaces.
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HOW TYPE FAMILIES WORK Peter Bil’ak • New innovations in technology led to the creation of superfamilies. • Type families contain over 100 fonts in the family • Varying weights was introduced in the mid-19th century • Adrian Frutiger: Late 20th century shifted attention from the design of a single typeface to the design of a complete typeface system. • Jan Van Krimpen: 1932, first to incorporate two different styles of typeface into one family. • Donald Knuth: 1977, created programing language called Metafont, which defined the shapes of letterforms with geometric equations. • Gerrit Noordzij: Taught writing and type design at the Royal Academy of Arts in the Hague. He described typeface production in three ways: translation, expansion, and rotation.
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PAGE LAYOUT • Page Layout: Emphasis on the positioning and relationship of text and other elements on the page. • Centered text is overused. • Hyphenation should be used if you use justified text. • Page margins set the default territory your text occupies on the page. Don’t fear white space. • Set your body text first. Start with font, point size, line spacing, and line length. • Always adjust tracking so rags are even on the page. • Don’t manually set your numbered and bulleted list. Use the automated settings. • Keeping parts of the same components together visually helps the reader distinguish different paragraphs.
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USING LAYOUT GIRDS EFFECTIVELY Steven Heller
• Using a grid layout helps the harmony and consistency throughout your designs. • Make sure the layout grid compensates for the type of book binding that you are going to be applying.
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TYPOGRAPHICA MEA CULPA, UNETHICAL DOWNLOADING Steven Heller This article explains the copyright infringements of different typefaces. If you buy a font, you can’t go around sharing it with other people. Typeface licenses have a limited number of CPUS and a fixed amount of uses (web, print, etc).
GRATUITOUS TYPE MAGAZINE Elana Schlenker • She felt that the U.S. lacked a graphic designfocused magazine with a more international perspective and aesthetic. • Emphasize playfulness over dry editorial objectivity • Created white space and movement
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LAVA – VOICE OF A MAGAZINE (2013) Peter Bil’ak
• Lava was designed to work well on both digital and print versions of a magazine. • Useful for high and low resolutions. • References the typefaces Times and Georgia for their legibility on-screen. • Wanted it to define Works That Work Magazine, because he was so confident in it.
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BEAUTY AND UGLINESS IN TYPE DESIGN Peter Bil’ak • Peter designed a typeface that combines aspects of ugly and beautiful typefaces.
Bodoni | Didot Considered classically beautiful for having contrasting proportions. • ‘Italian’ was picked as an ugly unconventional typeface because it doesn’t obey letterform convention. • Ugliness in type: Depends on where the contrasting thick and thin strokes are placed.
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AN IDEA OF A TYPEFACE Kai Bernau
• Kai Bernau attempted to create a neutral typeface (somewhat similar to Univers or Helvetica) • She was inspired by the question of why certain typefaces age better. • Neutrality: A construction that describes things that seem free of connotation to a specific group at a certain time.
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ERIC GILL GOT IT WRONG; A RE-EVALUATION OF GILL SANS Ben Archer
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Gill Sans is the Helvetica of England; ubiquitous, utilitarian and yet also quite specific in its ability to point to our notions of time and place. – Ben Archer
• Eric Gill was key to developing the model for Gill Sans, Johnston, in 1916 for the London Underground. • Gill Sans has various formal issues compared to Johnston – x-heights are too low, certain characters have lost character-defining terminal stroke details in medium weights.
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LECTURE NOTES Typographic Refinement Keyboard Shortcuts Typesetting in InDesign Type on Screen Type II Journal
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TYPOGRAPHIC REFINEMENT January 18 Point Size Typeface and weight Length and context of text How it will be viewed (printed, screen or both) Who is reading it Screen vs. Print Screen text should be larger (14 pt or bigger) than print (9-12 pt) Have at least one noticeable contrast from regular weight Legible numerals Colors appear different on print vs. screen Refining Type Customize the leading: 120-145% of point size (Print: 10 pt body = 12-14.5 pt leading; Screen 16 pt = 20 pt) Manually fix tracking to create correct rags Don’t use fake small caps: Only use if they come with the typeface Hyphens: Used if a word is too long for column length En dash: Duration, Em dash: Break in flow of sentence Quotes: Should hang and be curled not straight lines
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KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS January 25 • Shortcut for Page Break: fn + return • Shortcut for Paste in Place: shift + opt + command + v • Open Quote: opt + [ • Closed Quote: opt + shift + [ • Smart Quotes: Preferences ( cmd + k ) > type > use typographer’s quotes • Paragraph mark ¶: opt + 7 • Hyphen: • En Dash: –; opt + • Em Dash: —; opt + shift + • Trademark ™: opt + 2 ) • Registered Trademark ®: opt + r • Copyright ©: opt + g • Nonbreaking Space: opt + shift + space • Ampersand: Apply when part of a proper name, use sparingly especially in formal writing (ie. Art and Design, not Art & Design) • Ellipsis: opt + ; not ... or . . . ; at the end of a sentence add a period at the end ….
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CHOOSING TYPEFACES January 27 • Decide based on what the content is about, who the audience is, what format it will be designed in • Consider if full sets of characters is needed such as punctuation and glyphics • Multiple weights and styles • Small caps, lining and old style characters • Handlettering: takes time to perfect • Purchasing the license if you want to buy the font • Where to buy fonts: Art Server, Google Fonts (free; web and print), Lost Type Co-op (pay what you want), League of Movable Type (free; open source; well designed), Font Squirrel (free for commercial use), Fontspring (groups fonts by license types), Fonts.com (tons of fonts + blog)
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TYPESETTING IN INDESIGN February 3 • Basic Character Formats: Font, style, size, leading, kerning, tracking, case • Indents and Spacing: Alignment, indents, space before and after returns • Paragraph Rules: Shows lines that can appear above or below the paragraph • Character Styles: Styling text within a paragraph • Basic Character Formats: Font, font style, size, kerning, tracking, case • Table Setup: Border of table and spacing around table within paragraph • Row Strokes: Horizontal dividing lines in table • Column Strokes: Vertical dividing lines of table • Colophon: Name, location, date, typefaces used
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TYPE ON SCREEN March 3 • Legibility with thick-thin contrast in typefaces • Higher contrast in headlines • High x-height is ideal for on screen • Differentiating between different characters (ie. I, l, 1 vs. I, l, 1) • Small caps & ligatures should only be used if the typeface offers them. • Classic typefaces can be overused and cause the design to look like generic defaults. • Helvetica vs. Avenir; Georgia vs. Droid Serif • When pairing typefaces, avoid using ones that look too similar • Look for Visual relationships in structure such as Helvetica Neue and Bauer Bodoni • Some typefaces have sans + serif version (Officina Serif, Officina Sans)
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PROJECTS Legibility and Readability Study Typesetting: Rules of Typography A Dialogue Elements of Style Booklet Type Zine Type II Journal
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LEGIBILITY AND READABILITY STUDY Objective Use serif and sans serif typefaces to examine how adjustments in point size and leading effect legibility.
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Without typography, one could argue, messages will still be legible, but if one really wants to communicate rather than simply display a heap of alphanumeric data, some consideration would be helpful. Paul Watzlawick’s first axiom of communication—“one cannot not communicate”— puts it very succinctly. If you fail to consider the effect of your message on the recipient, you may inadvertently communicate that you do not care how your message may be received. GEORGIA, 9/13
Without typography, one could argue, messages will still be legible, but if one really wants to communicate rather than simply display a heap of alphanumeric data, some consideration would be helpful. Paul Watzlawick’s first axiom of communication—“one cannot not communicate”—puts it very succinctly. If you fail to consider the effect of your message on the recipient, you may inadvertently communicate that you do not care how your message may be received. HELVETICA, 9/13
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Final Serif
Sans Serif
Without typography, one could argue, messages will still be legible, but if one really wants to communicate rather than simply display a heap of alphanumeric data, some consideration would be helpful. Paul Watzlawick’s first axiom of communication—“one cannot not communicate”—puts it very succinctly. If you fail to consider the effect of your message on the recipient, you may inadvertently communicate that you do not care how your message may be received.
Without typography, one could argue, messages will still be legible, but if one really wants to communicate rather than simply display a heap of alphanumeric data, some consideration would be helpful. Paul Watzlawick’s first axiom of communication—“one cannot not communicate”—puts it very succinctly. If you fail to consider the effect of your message on the recipient, you may inadvertently communicate that you do not care how your message may be received.
GEORGIA, 9/13
HELVETICA, 9/13
Without typography, one could argue, messages will still be legible, but if one really wants to communicate rather than simply display a heap of alphanumeric data, some consideration would be helpful. Paul Watzlawick’s first axiom of communication—“one cannot not communicate”—puts it very succinctly. If you fail to consider the effect of your message on the recipient, you may inadvertently communicate that you do not care how your message may be received.
Without typography, one could argue, messages will still be legible, but if one really wants to communicate rather than simply display a heap of alphanumeric data, some consideration would be helpful. Paul Watzlawick’s first axiom of communication—“one cannot not communicate”—puts it very succinctly. If you fail to consider the effect of your message on the recipient, you may inadvertently communicate that you do not care how your message may be received.
GEORGIA, 9/12
HELVETICA, 9/12
Without typography, one could argue, messages will still be
Without typography, one could argue, messages will still be
legible, but if one really wants to communicate rather than simply display a heap of alphanumeric data, some consideration would be helpful. Paul Watzlawick’s first axiom of communication—“one cannot not communicate”—puts it very succinctly. If you fail to consider the effect of your message on the recipient, you may inadvertently communicate
legible, but if one really wants to communicate rather than
simply display a heap of alphanumeric data, some consider-
ation would be helpful. Paul Watzlawick’s first axiom of communication—“one cannot not communicate”—puts it very
succinctly. If you fail to consider the effect of your message on the recipient, you may inadvertently communicate that
that you do not care how your message may be received.
you do not care how your message may be received.
GEORGIA, 9/14
HELVETICA, 9/14
Without typography, one could argue, messages will still be
Without typography, one could argue, messages will still be
legible, but if one really wants to communicate rather than
legible, but if one really wants to communicate rather than
simply display a heap of alphanumeric data, some consid-
simply display a heap of alphanumeric data, some consider-
eration would be helpful. Paul Watzlawick’s first axiom of
ation would be helpful. Paul Watzlawick’s first axiom of com-
communication—“one cannot not communicate”—puts it
munication—“one cannot not communicate”—puts it very
very succinctly. If you fail to consider the effect of your mes-
succinctly. If you fail to consider the effect of your message
sage on the recipient, you may inadvertently communicate
on the recipient, you may inadvertently communicate that
that you do not care how your message may be received.
you do not care how your message may be received.
GEORGIA, 9/15
HELVETICA, 9/15
Without typography, one could argue, messages will still be legible,
Without typography, one could argue, messages will still be legible,
but if one really wants to communicate rather than simply display
but if one really wants to communicate rather than simply display a
a heap of alphanumeric data, some consideration would be helpful.
heap of alphanumeric data, some consideration would be helpful.
Paul Watzlawick’s first axiom of communication—“one cannot not
Paul Watzlawick’s first axiom of communication—“one cannot not
communicate”—puts it very succinctly. If you fail to consider the
communicate”—puts it very succinctly. If you fail to consider the
effect of your message on the recipient, you may inadvertently com-
effect of your message on the recipient, you may inadvertently com-
municate that you do not care how your message may be received.
municate that you do not care how your message may be received.
GEORGIA, 8/13
HELVETICA, 8/13
Without typography, one could argue, messages will still be legible, but if one really wants to communicate rather than simply display a heap of alphanumeric data, some consideration would be helpful. Paul Watzlawick’s first axiom of communication—“one cannot not communicate”—puts it very succinctly. If you fail to consider the effect of your message on the recipient, you may inadvertently communicate that you do not care how your message may be received.
Without typography, one could argue, messages will still be legible, but if one really wants to communicate rather than simply display a heap of alphanumeric data, some consideration would be helpful. Paul Watzlawick’s first axiom of communication—“one cannot not communicate”—puts it very succinctly. If you fail to consider the effect of your message on the recipient, you may inadvertently communicate that you do not care how your message may be received.
GEORGIA, 10/13
HELVETICA, 10/13
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TYPESETTING : RULES OF TYPOGRAPHY Objective For this project, you will research and document as many rules, ideas, or principles about typography as possible. Your findings must be typeset on one side of an 8.5” × 11” piece of paper. A minimum of five examples must be presented on the page. Each entry must come from a different source, and each student must do their best to have unique entries. You must credit the author as well as the source,including the page number on which it appeared and the year it was published. Books and scholarly articles must be used as your primary reference, not the Internet. Consideration should be given to the typesetting and design of the page.
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Critique • Composition and use of red as an accent color work well. • Overall, the layout is nicely organized. • The author’s names should be more prominent and distinct from the other bibliographic info. • Remember that subtle changes in type styles can aid clarity and help with readability.
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A DIALOGUE Objective For this project, use typography to create a distinction between two voices. Use images or illustrations to depict the tone and relate to the context. The purpose of this assignment is to comprehend good typography in relation to images, hierarchy and color.
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Critique • The image is dramatic and leads nicely to text • Dynamic – Adventure is moving forward like an arrow • Placement of photo is a good solution • Text is different weights top right corner • Remove quotes on pull quote • “Souls” type should have ’ • Adventure reads well, but other part of title is too small • Rags are done well • Incorporate a subtitle so we know who is “C” and “M”.
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ELEMENTS OF STYLE BOOKLET Objective This booklet focuses on the development of a grid structure that ensures consistency in a multiple page document. It uses the principles of composition and requires proper use of paragraph and character styles. The text must be styled using typographic techniques to establish hierarchy and clarity. The text is broken up into smaller sections that a group of three students will organize. Then each student will pick which elements are working and modify one design to have the strongest solution for the series of booklets. 38
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Critique • The overall design looks good, but the outside margin are a little tight. • Having only one table seems somewhat random and inconsistent with the other example styles.
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TYPE ZINE Objective The class will work on different articles to collaborate on group content for a magazine Each student will develop typography that is informed by content. This project will increase understanding of page layout, the importance of a grid use, hierarchy and pacing in a multiple page document. The zine will have a visual design that is appropriate for on screen viewing.
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ZINE PROJECT LECTURE February 22 • Inspiration Board: Imagery, page layout, type treatments, color palette ideas, typeface ideas • Concept Sketches: Cover design, image-heavy layout, text-heavy layout, different ideas for composition • Content: Upload what you have to Google folder, all images must have artist credit/ caption, all articles must have author, date, source.
Critique • Tracking with bold text • No light text for body • Use ticker weight for reversed out text • Don’t forget hang quotes • Hyphenation rules – hand kern them • Actually read the text to design • Vertical line rule
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Critique • Table of Contents – Capitalize Women and Worth • Em dashes have too much space • Album cover names italicize • New York Magazine Italicize • Page 38 there’s an orphan • Add campaign logos
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LEANN HILLEGAS CAL POLY SAN LUIS OBISPO ART 338.03 T YPEFACES USED: RALEWAY AND UNIVERS