day01 designpinciples
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Intro to typography & designTRANSCRIPT
The Design Universal PrinciplesTypography, Grids & Golden section
What is typography?• Design is fundamentally about
communication, and, for all the power of images, words remain at the core of how we communicate.
• Alas, Typography is the practice of visually representing words.
• Type conveys a meaning the face, size, weight, color etc.. They all add to the message.
What is typography?
• Remember: legibility is important AND the content is the king.
• Legibility comes from various things – spacing, letter shape, size, weight..
• Both content and presentation have direct effect on the message we convey
Associating meaning with typeDifferent typefaces have different character which adds to the message
Associating meaning with type
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The first impression is important
How type works?
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•Type communicates visually with curves, corners, variation, visual balance etc
•Anatomy of a letterhttp://www.counterspace.us/typography/
How type works?
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• Typefaces come in variety of styles;Old-style, Transitional, Modern, Egyptian/slab-serif, Sans-serif
• Sans-serifs can be further classified realist, geometric & humanist faces
Serif & sans-serif?
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• This is text written with a serif typeface
• This is text written with a serif typeface
Serif & sans-serif?
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• serif : A stroke added usually to the beginning or the end of a letter
• sans: ”without”
A small glossary of typographic terms
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Letterspacing
unnevenly spaced letters can disrupt our ability to distiguish words
A small glossary of typographic terms
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Line-height (leading)
can have great impact on legibility of text passages.
A small glossary of typographic terms
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Line length
The main issue for the reader is the disruption of having to go from the end of one line to the beginning of the next. When lines are too long this can be quite difficult because of the sheer distance the eye has to travel. On the other hand,if lines are setextremely short,the reader willhave to switchlines much more often.
A small glossary of typographic terms
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X-height
Has a great impact on legibility:
Both typefaces are set on the exact same size but
the readability varies greatly
Good typography on web design
• The biggest problem for good online typography is the screen resolution
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Good typography on web design
• With html we only have limited array of typefaces available
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Grid Systems
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What are grids?
Grid is a graphic design tool for aligning the content whithin each other
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BBCi
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BBCi
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Golden sectionThe Golden Section is based on a ratio which results in phi -take a line and divide it so that the ratio of the large piece (B) to the whole line (A) is the same as the ratio as the small piece (C) to the large piece (B):
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B C
A
So A is 161.8% of B and B is 161.8% of C.
The golden section numbers are ±0·61803 39887... and ±1·61803 39887...
Golden section
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Golden section: architecture
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Golden section:art AKA…Rule of Thirds
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Seurat
Golden section: art
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SeuratLeonardo's unfinished canvas Saint Jerome