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TYPOGRAPHY PROJECT 2

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TYPORGRAPHY - PROJECT 2 22/5/2018 - 29/5/2018 week 9 - week 10 Ng Shu Zhi (0327158) Typography - Project 2 - Font Design LECTURES Week 9: We had a talk in the morning with Mr Vinod about his ideals and reasons behind his teaching style and told us to become picky and make sure our strokes in our fonts were to be same width. week 10: [Wesak holiday] INSTRUCTIONS We were told to make our own fonts which could compliment the Taylor's mark. We were to study the design of the mark with its minimalistic design and design a font which would suit an education institution. WORK fig 1.1 My studies on the Taylor's mark and I tested a few of the fonts which were given by Mr. Vinod to compare and see which fonts seemed the best with it. I had concluded that the Taylor's mark was: - Symmetrical - Consistent width on every stroke - Tappered ends at the bottom but is san serif - Top have serifs - Thick strokes with condensed details (put into le

Typography - project 1

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TYPOGRAPHY - PROJECT 1 1/5/2018 - 15/5/2018 week 6 - week 8 Ng Shu Zhi (0327158) Typography - Project 1 - The Babadook Book LECTURES Lecture 7: We were taught about Kerning and Letter spacing. Letter spacing is the counter-form space of each letter. Kerning is when we adjust the space of the letter spacing. Spacing is to increase the spacing between each word. I also learned the space between each sentence is called legging space and, space between each paragraph is paragraph space. Lecture 8: We ventured more into Kerning and Letter spacing, this time learning how to organise and give hierarchy to Titles, sub titles  INSTRUCTIONS We were to design a children's horror story book called the Babadook using InDesign. We are to express 4 sentences in the whole book in 14 pt with 18 pt legging. The book is to be 200mm x 200mm in size. PROJECT WORK First attempt at the book fig 1.1 fig 1.2 fig 1.3 fig 1.4 fig 1.5 fig 1.6