Let's talk typography. One of the skills we need to have as designers, is a sense of what font choices work appropriately for which projects. We also need to know a little about contemporary design thought regarding typography. If we are creating a safety sign for a welding shop, we don't want to use a light, fluffy, silly font style. We'd want to use something easily readable and fairly straightforward. We want people to take the sign seriously, but be able to read it quickly from afar. Safety is serious business. If we are creating a sign for a children's talent show... we can go crazy, and choose something silly, something colorful, something that maybe doesn't need to have the same readability level. One of the problems with how accessible and numerous fonts are now is that people will design signage, or projects, without putting any thought towards the goal or purpose of their project. They don't make font choices that match their project. On of the biggest offenders is Comic Sans. People use it for everything. It was meant for comics, in the early 1990s. It's dated and overused. I bet, if you looked around our school closely you'd find signs or posters using Comic Sans. Look through the fonts available to use here in 515. Tell me what you think the best choices would be for the following:
1. a metal band poster 2. a donation letter from our DECA (business) club 3. a safety sign in the shop class
Julion Oddy
10/28/2013 04:16:49 am
1.Ahj Ticonderoga
Kiona Smith
10/28/2013 04:17:40 am
1. AHJ Rigid
asher murphy
10/28/2013 04:18:25 am
1.Ahj Ticonderoga.
Colby
10/28/2013 04:19:57 am
1. ahj Ticonderoga
Emme Chadwick
10/28/2013 04:20:30 am
1. Times New Roman
Noah Gibson
10/28/2013 04:20:52 am
1.AHJ Arnold Boecklin
Mikkel
10/28/2013 04:21:13 am
Ahj ticonderoga
Landon
10/28/2013 04:21:52 am
1. ahj Ticonderoga
Yousef
10/28/2013 04:22:27 am
Times new roman
jose
10/28/2013 04:22:43 am
1) ahj Ticonderoga
brandon
10/28/2013 04:24:33 am
1. AHJ Ticonderoga
Jacob T
10/28/2013 04:25:08 am
1. AHJ chrisma
Connor Wood
10/28/2013 04:26:08 am
1. AHJ Chrisma
Tera V.
10/28/2013 05:18:54 am
1. AHJ Ticonderoga
Brian Reyes
10/28/2013 05:21:54 am
1. Ahj Ticonderoga.
Cory Wiese
10/28/2013 05:22:00 am
1. a metal band poster- Viner Hand ITC
Eben Jones
10/28/2013 05:23:15 am
1. Ahj Ticonderoga
Erik Safford
10/28/2013 05:23:26 am
1. Mesquite Std
Erik P
10/28/2013 05:23:57 am
Jamie Gaylor
10/28/2013 05:24:19 am
1. AHJ Ticonderoga
Trevor wagner
10/28/2013 05:24:41 am
1. AHJ Chrisma
Roberto Carlos Luna
10/28/2013 05:26:47 am
1.Times new roman
Kyle Kozisek
10/28/2013 05:27:19 am
ajh Ticonderoga
Mikey
10/28/2013 05:27:26 am
1. AHJ Teresita Script
Evan Saraivanov
10/28/2013 05:27:33 am
1. ahj charisma
Michael Tran
10/28/2013 05:27:45 am
1:AHJ Snowwrite
Hilary Cruz
10/28/2013 05:28:19 am
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Glenn Vera
10/28/2013 05:29:03 am
1.) AHJ Erbar Deco
Russ Q
10/28/2013 05:30:10 am
1. AHJ Ticonderoga
James Ellis
10/28/2013 05:30:47 am
1. Ahj Ticonderoga.
Andrew Moore
10/28/2013 05:33:02 am
1.) AHJ Glaser Stencil
Mason Channel
10/28/2013 05:33:13 am
AHJ Chrisma for metal band
Risimie Yem
10/29/2013 07:40:35 am
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