From the course: Learning to Set Display Type
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Use display type with images
From the course: Learning to Set Display Type
Use display type with images
- Your type will often appear with images and the question is, where does it go? How do they interact? And there are basically two approaches. The type can be separate from the image, or type can be part of the image. Really common is that type will share space with images. But now we're getting into layout. That's for another course. Your tendency, at least if you're new, will be to get type and image arranged in some way. Pushing things here, moving them there, and so on. I'd like to suggest that the easiest approach is often to just keep the two separate. Words here, pictures there. A very simple example is this cover, a Cyclist's Guide to Crater Lake. Beautiful type, beautiful picture, very clean. This approach, though, makes more rectangles. You can see the white ones above and below the image. Sometimes a rectangular look is perfect, very modern, but sometimes not, because you then have to fit your type into those rectangles. You can mitigate this in a couple of ways. One is to…
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