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Choosing your typeface

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Choosing your typeface

- [Narrator] Okay. We've placed our text, we've cleaned up our text. Let's now take a step back and consider the typeface that we want to use for our body text. I should also mention that, in doing these tasks one by one, I inevitably give you the impression that it's a very linear process; we finish one step, we move on to the next, we finish that, we move on to the next. They're building blocks that stack up on top of each other. And while that's true to some extent, in reality we are moving back and forth between these tasks. It's never quite as linear or as straightforward as it may appear. Now, in making our typeface choice, we need to consider the following things: What do we want of our typeface? And I want a typeface that offers me open type features like small caps and old-style figures, swash characters, possibly ornaments. Maybe I want a typeface that comes in a range of different weights, bold and semi-bold as well as regular. But I also want a typeface that is going to be…

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