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- Upper lowercase is easier to read
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Typography Critique Week 1 - One Weight, One Pt. Size - Designing with Limitations
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- 1 - The top 5 elements of good typography
- 2 - 1st Critique
- 3 - Does increasing the space make it more interesting and dynamic contrast?
- 4 - Group things by aligning them to an axis/how to make a focal point/order
- 5 - Pushing the letters off the edges
- 6 - What are rivers in typography
- 7 - Figure out what’s important
- 8 - 3rd critique - Imagine it’s the layout of a room/a floor plan. Don’t push everything to the edge
- 9 - 4th Critique - break things up into groups
- 10 - Explore different sizes and weights, but only one size and weight per layout
- 11 - The default font and point size is the worst. The difference changing the point size can make
- 12 - Make some ugly layouts to discover more
- 13 - Pushing things to the edge
- 14 - The 1/3 rule
- 15 - How to critique your own layout
- 16 - What are grids? What are they used for in typography?
- 17 - Upper lowercase is easier to read
- 18 - if the primary goal of a piece is to communicate in a logical manner, then should the focal point usually be the (in this case) RZN8? Since that's typically what we want people to ID first
- 19 - How to create separation between two groups that are in all caps
- 20 - Grids - Fibonacci sequence ***
- 21 - Double spacing
- 22 - Be really aligned or really offset
- 23 - How you should view the design as a floor plan***
- 24 - How grouping creates the better relationship
- 25 - Recap
- 26 - Architecture plug in from Hot Door CAD Tools
