Introduce yourself in a few words with a typographic style which reflects who you are and what you are all about by applying principles of typographic contrast covered in this class.

Your introduction (name tag) should include your name and something which you identify yourself with, such as your occupation, nationality, family status, or anything else you deem important about yourself. Think about it as a first step of designing something which in future you can take further and develop into your business card or a header for you website or blog.

Start off by finding the right typefaces to reflect your personality and then experiment with different applications of principles of typographic contrast.

DELIVERABLE

Share your final designs, work-in-progress, and research into typefaces and typeface pairings if you wish. Tell us about your thinking behind the typeface choice and the way you created typographic contrast, and make sure to provide the names of typefaces used.

It would be great to see at least a couple of different final designs.

Remember, only black text on white background, let the typefaces do the talking! No cheating with colours, images or textures;)

Upload to your class project:

2 or more final designs;
list of used typefaces per design;
a few words about yourself and why you chose certain typefaces to reflect your personality;
work-in-progress (optional);
research into typefaces and type pairings (optional).

RESOURCES

Typeface pairs:

www.typewolf.com

www.typegenius.com

fontpair.co

www.typography.com/techniques/

www.fontshop.com/news/great-pairs

pinterest.com/explore/font-pairings/

blog.typekit.com/2012/05/23/type-study-pairing-typefaces/

pinterest.com/typewolf/web-typography-inspiration/ – Pinterest board with typewolf.com selection

Typeface referencing:

justmytype.co

fontsinuse.com

practicaltypography.com/system-fonts.html – a good article and classification of default system fonts we all have, and a few hints what this typefaces are good for

Font libraries:

fontshop.com – free cool fonts on FontShop

dafont.com – if you are desperate for something new and for some reason cannot get anything from any other font libraries for free under special offers (see list above), than you can check out Basic section of the library on dafont.com.

Further Reading on Type Spacing:

fontshop.com/content/adventures-in-space-kerning – Kerning

fontshop.com/content/adventures-in-space_tracking – Tracking

Nicole Day

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