Type Workshop Three

This week in the Typography workshop we were dealing with entire paragraphs of text! Shocking I know, whatever will be next? A whole page of text?

He's playing with fire!

We're not ready for Nibbly Pig! I mean, uh, full pages. Black Books moment over.

Aaaaanyway. This top page of text was done using a four column page in InDesign. Clearly I've only used three of the four columns but whatever, it's what we were told to do. We were looking into readability, as in which piece of text you would most likely read. I'm learning a lot more about kerning and leading and point size and the like. I'm actually really enjoying this workshop and that definitely is making me lean further and further towards doing the Typography elective.
And then, we moved onto using a twelve column grid, making 3, 2, 1 and 6 column pieces of text, and how to make use of the space given to us.

By doing this, I learned that you should never really have less than 5/6 words to a line, and no more than 12 - 14. Obviously you can have more, but going on a purely compfrt of reading factor, you don't want to have someone look at the text abd your page and think 'Jesus that looks like a lot of work, I'm just not going to bother.'

You want people to read with ease.

This is a screenshot of what the grid system looks like.



And this is what it all looks like without the grid lines on show. Pretty slick, huh?
I'm actually learning a lot in this workshop, and am making good use of Indesign. When we tried to learn about it last year, I'm not going to lie, I didn't really get what the hell I was supposed to do with it.

Fun fact: If you need to fit a lot of words into a small space, don't condense a font by kerning, find a condensed font because that was made to be condensed and still look good. If you kern a font to make it fit, it won't flow as nice as it did before.