Typography

CDF Project 3: Type & Hierarchy

Assignment

Project 3: The Poster

The purpose of this portion of Project 3 was to create a poster for a particular typeface. We started by doing some…

Project Three: Type & Hierarchy

Introduction: Playing with Type & Hierarchy

Type Specimen Poster — Avenir

This was the final part of a third project for the Communication Design Fundamentals course at Carnegie Mellon. The task was to apply principles of digital typography (kerning, leading, tracking, etc..) as well as Gestalt principles to create a type specimen poster for a…

Times New Roman

Times New Roman is a serif typeface created in 1931 by Stanley Morison for The Times newspaper.This font has an formal and ancient feel to me because they are popular in books and even standardized exams. This font does not have anything to do with the Romans except that it looks traditional and is…

CDF P3 Typography Poster

Project Overview

Type & Hierarchy

Project 3

Project Description

What I noticed about traces + fonts for words

Some traces are serif and some are sans serif. Some (the ones with serif), have different g’s, like the ones written here. Some have different looking a’s with a ‘hat’ on top. Some characters have skinnier strokes in some places and wider strokes in…

Project Three

Part 1, 2, 3

Part 1: Tracing

Type & Hierarchy

Typeface Tracing