From the course: Typography: Choosing and Combining Typefaces
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Solutions: Choosing typefaces for a magazine spread
From the course: Typography: Choosing and Combining Typefaces
Solutions: Choosing typefaces for a magazine spread
The 20 minute creative challenge I gave you was to design a magazine spread using images and display texts that I provided and some body copy. You could use any of the principles and approaches covered in this course to decide which typefaces to choose and combine. You could choose one of two topics or maybe you decided to try both. So, how did you do? Do you choose typefaces that worked with the subject matter or with images? Did the typefaces you chose work harmoniously with one another? There are many possible succesful solutions to this challenge. Let me share my 20 minute solutions with you. For my first solution, I started with the jellyfish images. I just love both of these images that I shot with my iPhone. They're completely unretouched or cropped. I noticed that there's a natural flow of movement from one to the next. So I decided to aim for the drama of using both photos butting up against one another. I used a full bleed format for my magazine spread. I also recognized…
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