Improve Your Typography Skills in 20 Minutes

In this short class, I’ll share a few principles about type and text that’ll help you to create better layout with more legible text. 

Contents: 

01 Overview. Eye movement, leading, spacing, body text.

02 Basic Principles

02.1 Layout

02.2 Arrangement

02.3 Repeat

02.4 Contrast. Ways of creating contrast.

• Mixing typefaces
• Size
• Weight
• Direction
• Color
• Images

Mixing typefaces. How to create harmony & contrast instead of conflict using type.

Font classification simplified.

03 More and more text

• Indents
• Lists & tabs
• Accidents
• Blurring
• The rule of three lines
• The spot effect
• Optical kerning
• Enhancements
• Columns
• Orphans
• Drop caps
• Optical margin
• All caps
• Grids

04 Conclusion & Homework