From the course: Typography: Hierarchy and Navigation
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Using typographic "furniture" to create navigation
From the course: Typography: Hierarchy and Navigation
Using typographic "furniture" to create navigation
Besides type, numbers and analphabetic symbols, I want to show you one more way to help with navigation. If you haven't heard the term typographic furniture before, it's a term that describes any other element that adds to or supports the typographic elements on the page. They're not images and they're not graphics. Typically, they're rules and lines that help separate and define the typographic elements. Here's a subtle example of typographic furniture. On the white label, these thin, hair-line rules help to separate the typographic elements. Thus helping the viewer navigate the information especially to separate the Korean type from the Latin type. On the round label below, you can see the double outline encircling and containing the text and another linear element underlining and separating the name of the market. These bits of typographic furniture also lend an air of elegance and refinement to this product. In this example, the hairline rules do just the opposite. They provide a…
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