Category Archives: Graphic Design

I sketched out some ideas for my poster based on my handmade type phrase I recently posted. I also sketched some ideas for a peer.

The first poster is the kind of type I wanted to make. The second is the same cut-out feel mine has. The third has the text freely overlapping each other and the rounded letterforms are angled similarly to mine.

I started with the idea of using the idiom in the loop to question if people have actually looked up what they know about the pandemic and the protective measures they use. Then realized it felt too gentle for such a serious issue and the question would be answered yes even if they didn’t go …

Continue reading “Lettering Project”

The first image shows what I hand lettered and the other image shows two different ways I turned it into a vector. The top of the secound image is made with the pen tool in Illustrator while the bottom is made with image trace then corrected given it adds a lot of anchor points.

I merged Baskerville and Courier. Baskerville uses curves to lean into its serifs while Courier is consistent line weight and straight lines but rounded serifs. Baskerville also has a strong line weight variance and small spacing between the letters, while Couriers is a set distance.

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All communication has rules. Writing has rules as down to its bare bones. The bare bones being the size, weight, color, contrast, case, and position. These bare bones allow for a better communication for a piece of writing as like this page we know the title is the title because it is a larger size …

Continue reading “How to Structure an Effective Typographic Heirarchy”