Monday, November 20
FILES & LINKS
Google Drive
REFERENCE (use it)
Mac is Not a Typewriter (pdf)
Practical Typography by Matthew Butterick
Fontology by Fonts.com
Elements Typo. Style: Robert Bringhurst
Getting it Right w/Type: Victoria Squire
InDesign help (+google)
Read the InDesign How to Document.pdf
Paragraph Styles
Charater Styles
CALENDAR
Nov 15 :: Nov 20 :: Nov 27 :: Nov 29 :: Dec 4 :: Dec 7 :: Due Wed. Dec 13 at 3:00pm
TITLE PAGE
name of your book, your name University of Kansas, 2023
Add to the beginning or end of the book.
Designed by Your Name. Class project for Typographic Systems at the University of Kansas, 2023. The text was compiled from the following sources: Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst, Getting it Right with Type: the Do's and Don'ts of Typography by Victoria Square, Mac is Not A Typewriter by Robin Williams. This book is not to be sold to the public and to only be used by the designer for their reference and student design portfolio.
All the content below must be in your workbook. However you can organize it in any way you want. Each section can be a chapter or you can organize the content into groups and those become chapters.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TYPOGRAPHIC RULES
01 rules check sheet
02 typographic rules
MICRO-TYPOGRAPHY
03 special characters
04 column width and hyphenation
05 hyphens and dashes
06 quotes and apostrophes
07 kerning
FORMATING TYPE
08 figures and tabular tables
09 justification, letterspacing, word spacing
10 paragraph breaks
REFERENCE
11 anatomy of type
12 typographic color
13 font classifications
Discuss Font Specs, Set Character Styles
Discuss Typographic Color
Establish Character Styles (this is a must do it now and in class do not wait, you won’t pass this project if you don’t use Character Styles)
Use the Font Spec File to start your workbook.
Save the file as yourname_workbook_01
everytime you open your workbook save as a different number so you can go back to a file if you need it.
Inclass we will start all of these pages, you can use as many pages as you want for each section some will fit on 1 spread some may take multiple spreads. BEFORE you leave class today, package your files and put them on the google drive so I can check your Character Styles ect. Feel free to pack your files anytime and send me a slack DM for me to take a look. Use the google drive to put your files use Slack to communicate with me :)
Add Chapter Openings even if they are just place holder: do this with me in class (design them outside of class)
TYPOGRAPHIC RULES
01 rules check sheet
02 glossary of typographic rules
MICRO-TYPOGRAPHY
03 special characters
04 column width and hyphenation
05 hyphens and dashes
06 quotes and apostrophes
07 kerning
FORMATING TYPE
08 figures and tabular tables
09 justification, letterspacing, word spacing
10 paragraph breaks
REFERENCE
11 anatomy of type
12 typographic color
13 font classification
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Setting up Character Styles
︎ video about character styles
Typographic Rules Chapter
01 rules check sheet (flow text in, change to body text, subhead text, design pages for homework)
02 glossary of typographic rules (flow text in, change to body text, subhead text, design pages for homework)
︎ VIDEO about Typographic Rules they are together in one video
Micro-Typography Chapter
03 special characters (flow text in, change to character styles, must use TABS to organize)
︎ video about special characters from class for reference
Reference Chapter
11 anatomy of type (flow text in, change to body text, subhead text, design pages for homework) ︎ video from class for reference
HOMEWORK
Watch videos from class if you need some reference. How can you showcase the content, make the content King of the page. Visually showcase what is being talked about. A visual reference. We flowed in all the text now you have to DESIGN it. And not with “graphic design elements” but with typography.
Finish all 4 chapters 1, 2, 3, 11. Add your Chapter Openings.
Package your InDesign file print on 11 x 17 as spreads for Monday.