Type Specimen Book

Type Specimen Book

The assignment was to choose one of your favorite fonts. A font with lots to offer the graphic design world. On top of the main objective this also was the first time we were asked to make a book in InDesign. Therefore we were taught the technicalities of that before diving into the font specifics. But aside from that, for me this was easy considering all I ever like to use graphically is Gill Sans Light. We were asked to represent the font in several different ways within this project. We had to create an appealing title page to pull in the audience. Then within the book we had to show: the history of the font and the font designer, a representation of what the font would look like within a long text and all of the options that font offered you. Apart from that, the way we decided to show off our fonts was in our own hands. Obviously looking back on this it isn’t my greatest accomplishment. Still being pretty new in the InDesign program I wanted to push the design to something extreme. Show what I was capable of I suppose. But looking back I wouldn’t have made such an extreme color decision with such extreme bold designs. Although I do like how I showed off the font possibilities within the page numbers.

 

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