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Good typographic design is like graphic design in general mainly a combination of common sense and keeping things simple. Look at attractive examples of typographic designs that are similar to what you’re trying to create. The following list explains some basic rules
Tips for Better Typography
- Whenever applicable, respect the history of your typeface.
- Understand it might not have been designed to stretch, bend, or be distorted.
- Design for readability and legibility. Type is supposed to be read.
- Consider what your font was designed for when choosing it. Don’t write your memos in Impact. Sending emails sent in Funstuff makes you look goofy.
- Many fonts are designed to be set in Upper and Lower case. Script fonts are an example of this and are nigh-illegible in all caps.
- Blackletter fonts are another example. There is an aesthetic associated with all-caps Blackletter fonts, but they aren’t necessarily designed for reading that way.
- When your primary purpose is communicating the content, simpler is often better.
- Use as few fonts and point sizes in those fonts as possible on a single design.
- If you use a different font or point size in that font in a design, make sure you have a reason.
- Make sure they are different enough that the difference is noticed.
- If you ignore any of the so called “rules of design,” have a good reason, and do it extremely well.
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/30065/how-to-understand-typography-like-a-professional-designer/
The Gestalt Principles
Closure
Closure occurs when an object is incomplete or a space is not completely enclosed. If enough of the shape is indicated, people percieve the whole by filling in the missing infomation.
Although the panda above is not complete, enough is present for the eye to complete the shape. When the viewer’s perception completes a shape, closure occurs.
Chloe Holden “The design entices you to work out/fill in the gaps of the design, and therefore take part in the design process. E.g. becomes like a design hook as participation is necessary."
Point to Pixel Evaluation
I am really happy with this projects outcome as i think it is the most informed out all of my projects as i really struggled with it at the beginning and i think this pushed me harder to research and get it right. I think i have answered the brief as it shows the web in a printed form, therefore transforming pixels in to points. I am happy with the format, becoming an address book because that is literally what web history is, i love that i never thought of it that way until i really thought about it. I did originally struggle with the format as i liked the idea that we often hide are web history and delete it but i am glad i went with the ice of exploring and showing it in the physical and literal form, as an address book.
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Research into pre-existing address books
Determines your IP address and shows information (host, location, whois) about any IP address entered. Looks up to 10 IP addresses at the same time
Chloe Holden “I could use this to find out where websites were created and use colour coding to categorise these. Therefore the colour codings not arbitrary, however i still need to think if thats the information i actually want to get from it or whether or i could find the hex codes of all the websites i had visited and use them as my colour coding"