Monday, 19 October 2009

T&G 3

In this workshop we started to work with paragraphs in comparison to earlier lectures in which we studied single words and then moved onto sentences.
Now we are looking at paragraphs, we were asked to open up a new document with 4 columns (landscape) with a 3cm gutter.

We were then given a strip of text in which we were asked to make fit to the column without using spaces or changing the typeface from arial.













I chose to alter the point size to begin with and make the justify they piece to block.
We then were asked to make a few more examples of different ways of doing this.















I then kerned the piece, changed the weight and also changed the leading and spacing to gain the desired outcome.













We then were asked to make the text more interesting and readable, from left to right, we were now allowed to change the typeface. I didn't have to change much as the work was already done, i just needed to pick a appropriate typeface which would benefit the decisions made earlier, which on the right i believe i did.













Finally we were asked to change the column widths, one average, one half the size and one twice the size, I found the first one easy, the second more of a challenge as the point size was to be made less in size but still needed to be bold and not look like lost type on a page. By altering the weight I think that I captured the attention the half column needed/needs.
I found the double sized column the mare, I found it rather hard to do this without changing the point size to something ridiculously big, I eventually settled on using a big leading which i don't think benefitted the type.

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