Lecture 10: Typography and Layout
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LINES
- Baseline: The one you might be most familiar with is the baseline. This is the line that the text sits on.
- Cap height (or cap line): This marks the top of capital letters.
- Ascender height (or topline): This line shows where the top of letters such as kand h touch. Strangely, in a lot of cases, this line is slightly higher than the capital line.
- X-height (or midline): This shows the height of lowercase letters (excluding ascenders and descenders). It is typically measured using the height of the letterx.
- Descender height (or beardline): Descenders are the parts of characters that go below the baseline (such as the letters p and y). This line shows where the bottoms of the descenders are.
TECHNIQUES
- Leading describes the amount of space between lines of text. You can measure leading by obtaining the distance between two baselines.
- Tracking (or letter-spacing) is the space between groups of characters
- Kerning describes the amount of space between two characters.There is often confusion between tracking and kerning. While tracking is a global setting that affects how close all the characters are, kerning is more the microscopic view of the space between two letters. Some character combinations might require more kerning than others to avoid collisions (e.g., compare KX versus ll).
- Weight is the relative darkness of the characters of a type font resulting from the relative thickness of the strokes, expressed as light, bold, extrabold, etc.
Choosing a font
01. Size
02. Leading
03. Tracking and Kerning
04. Measure
05. Hierarchy and Scale
02. Leading
03. Tracking and Kerning
04. Measure
05. Hierarchy and Scale
Relevance to Projects
As I am thinking of using typography in Project 2, it was pretty nice to review this lecture in the midst of during my Project 2. This lecture has taught me what kind of font to use to suit for my project where I am going for more of an aged feel, such Old English Text MT.
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