Type Workshop Four
Well what do you know? Full pages of text! Am I good or was it just obvious? I really don't know what's coming next though but I'll admit I'm a little bit excited to find out.
Okay, full pages of text. The image below is just the text pasted into a fullsize text box (not including margins or anything like that) and then edited via pointsize and leading to make it all fit in the one box. There are far many words to read on each line and just looking at it makes me think, ugh, that's a lot to read. Graham showed us a way of making it look much nicer.
And that way was this. You can't edit it enough to have fewer words on the line and not have it so crammed up with minus leading that you can barely read it? Make the text box slimmer and work with it from there. I'm not going to lie, the piece of text on a whole looks far nicer, and really does make me want to read it more than the above one.
Then we moved onto two columm, which was fairly easy and is another solution to solving the 'too many words on a line' problem with the single column. Splitting it into two makes it far more readable due to the fewer words on the line.
Then images were thrown into the mix! Madness!
Two columm
Three column
Four columm
And five column
And then we were shown more interesting ways to use up columns! These were done with five column grids as examples.
I really like these two, they just look so snazzy and far more intriguing than generic layouts.
I'm learning about both layout and typography now!
Okay, full pages of text. The image below is just the text pasted into a fullsize text box (not including margins or anything like that) and then edited via pointsize and leading to make it all fit in the one box. There are far many words to read on each line and just looking at it makes me think, ugh, that's a lot to read. Graham showed us a way of making it look much nicer.
And that way was this. You can't edit it enough to have fewer words on the line and not have it so crammed up with minus leading that you can barely read it? Make the text box slimmer and work with it from there. I'm not going to lie, the piece of text on a whole looks far nicer, and really does make me want to read it more than the above one.
Then we moved onto two columm, which was fairly easy and is another solution to solving the 'too many words on a line' problem with the single column. Splitting it into two makes it far more readable due to the fewer words on the line.
Then images were thrown into the mix! Madness!Two columm
Three column
Four columm
And five column
And then we were shown more interesting ways to use up columns! These were done with five column grids as examples.
I really like these two, they just look so snazzy and far more intriguing than generic layouts.
I'm learning about both layout and typography now!
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