Type Book – introductory typography project
Students were asked to conduct basic research on a typeface and its creator. The deliverable was a 12–20 page book that covered the history, aesthetic qualities, and compared or contrasted the typeface to other similar faces. This book served several learning goals: to explain and illustrate historic and stylistic vignettes of a typeface, to learn basic technical functions of page layout software, to create and apply a set of rules for visual page construction.
Clarendon
Helvetica
Futura
Mrs Eaves
Baskerville
Helvetica
Mrs Eaves
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