Type Workshop One

I'm actually learning quite a bit from this type workshop, it's pretty interesting and somewhat amusing. Graham's pretty sound.

We were first intructed to type our names using a font that we think represents us. I went straight to dafont.com and downloaded my favourite font, which is called Zebra by somebody called 'oneonezero'. Anyway, I think it's a gorgeous typeface. It's not overcomplicated, it's somewhat delicate looking and it has some interesting serifs. I'm thinking of re-doing my blog layouts and just doing it simple with that as a header.

We were told to try and convey a happy dog through typography alone, using the word 'dog'. I chose to use the Cooper Black font for mine, and mine got picked as the 'happiest dog' so I must have been doing something right. The serifs on the D and G look a little like a dog's ears and tail, but that wasn't really what swung it. The counter of the O is tilted, and that gives it a somewhat playful look. Also, size is important, so a big, bold font that's very in your face seemed to work. It filled the page I was working on. A word doesn't have to be in all uppercase to be attention-grabbing.

This one is to represent a scared dog, so I had a small, lowercase word tucked into the corner of the page. The font used for this one is Bell Gothic. The positioning on the page makes it the last place the eye automatically goes to, the first obviously being the top-left hand corner of the page. I think it works.

-HJ x