:: Syllabus :: Modular Grid :: Modular Font :: Type Setting Studies :: Resident Expert :: class google drive

 

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Professor: Andrea Herstowski
Office: 353 Chalmers Hall
Office hours: by appointment
email: herstow@ku.edu

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Resources
Practical Typography
Practical Typography
Mac is Not a Typewriter
Thinking with Type
Mac is Not a Typewriter (pdf)
The Elements of Typographic Style
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Getting it Right with Type
Letter Fountain

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Dates

October 25
October 27
November 1
November 3
November 8
November 10

 


 

 

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UPDATING. THIS PAGE IS IN THE WORKS...

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Type Setting Studies

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Professionals can immediately tell if you understand typography. Getting and keeping the job requires that you master typographic details. Your upper-level studios will focus on the macro of design and typography --, the big idea. These studies focus on the micro (all the typographic details) it is expected that you know this information or know where to fine this information.

We will be creating an epub/interactive pdf containing a series of type setting, type rule investigations. The content is all about typographic studies/ type setting rules. There is different types of information you will be "displaying". This short project is less about the design and more about mastering how to create beautiful typography. The content will come in handy for every project from here out.

The final product will be an epub/intereative pdf.

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From Shaping Text by Jan Middendorp "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and whether book or magazine 'looks good' is, to a large extent, a matter of taste. But beyond person preferences, it is certainly possible to recognize quality; to get a feel of a piece of text is harmoniously set, to pick out typesetting flaws (and correct them), to notice whether a text looks bland because that is what the designer wanted or because they never looked beyond the default settings or fonts that begin with 'A'." It is all in the details. There are several factors on which the appeal and functionality and accessibility may depend;

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The Investigations
The investigations themselves are basic but how you apply all you learn through them will give you the tools to attain a sophisticated command of arranging complex information in elegant and understandable ways. We will do them in class. Homework will be more research/readings/videos. Be prepared to work and keep up in class.

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Resources
Practical Typography by Matthew Butterick
Practical Typography by Fonts.com
Mac is Not a Typewriter
Thinking with Type by Ellen Lupton
Mac is Not a Typewriter (pdf)
The Elements of Typographic Style
: Robert Bringhurst
Getting it Right with Type: Victoria Squire
Letter Fountain. book and online

InDesign help (old doc but useful)
Read the InDesign How to Document (pdf)

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Baseline Grid (also called the leading grid)
Many people call the baseline grid, the leading grid. It maybe easier to understand the baseline grid thinking about it as the leading grid. The key is the baseline grid is based on leading. The leading should be related (a multiple) of the baseline grid.

*You must use the baseline grid for your invigations

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Paragraph and Character Styles
We will practice and you will master Paragraph Styles and Character Styles. If you need to make changes to the font, size, leading, color, style you can change them all globally through Styles.

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epub/Interactive Pdf
successfully design and typeset both a printed book about the principles of typography

tools: Adobe InDesign
size print: 8.5in x 11in (page size)
page count: unlimited so do not overcrowd pages fonts: typefaces of your choice, determined by investigation
color: full color
grid: 6 column
output: final output epub/ interactive pdf

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October 25
Intro to project
Setting up grids in InDesign
Master Pages
Page Numbers
Into to homework (examples in the class google drive)

familiarize yourself with these resources
(just click around you don't have to read -- yet)

Practical Typography by Matthew Butterick
Practical Typography by Fonts.com
Shaping Text by Jan Middendorp (copy is on the class google drive)
Mac is Not a Typewriter (copy is on the class google drive)
The Elements of Typographic Style
: Robert Bringhurst (copy is on the class google drive)

Typographic Color

Watch epub...

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October 27

Character Styles
Justification Settings
Hyphenation Rules
Line Length, Column Width
:: Homework https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GMiDAUJv2F1FMFqRcNPt4EBJr2-OLjt3f8gPR-SlG6Y/edit?usp=sharing

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November 1

watch combining fonts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFdy1atsxNI
Words, Lines, Paragraphs
(pragraph setting, combining typefaces)
Numerals, Figures

:: Homework https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qcykmn2YbmgI8mYVgEyJh-IkMGVaa8T_HHDTTC2HrjY/edit

November 3
Small Capitals
Accent Marks, Special Characters 
Quotes, Apostrophes, Inch, Foot
Hyphens, Dashes
Kerning

November 8
Rules Check Sheet

Typographic Ruies

Due Nov 10 start last project