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Typography: Type in Motion

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Overview

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Explore best practices behind type in motion, and discover how to influence story and mood with typeface choices, movement, pacing, and special effects.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Energize your typography by adding motion
  • What you should know
1. Screens: Mobile to Massive
  • The elastic screen size
  • Designing for the middle
  • Interactive versus passive
2. Style, Size, Weight, Width, and Contrast
  • Typographic personality and expressiveness
  • Size, weight, and width
  • Color and complexity
  • Foreground to background contrast
3. Movement, Timing, and Animation
  • Entering the screen, exiting the screen
  • Animation qualities
  • Transparency and fading
  • Dwell time
4. Special Effects
  • When it is called for
  • Type in motion...or not?
In Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Ina Saltz

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