Join Nigel French for an in-depth discussion in this video Choosing the right type style, part of Designing a Typographic Victorian Ad.
…Crucial to the success of our project is choosing…the right typeface, or rather choosing an appropriate typeface.…That can mean either a typeface that was designed during…the era, a typeface that was designed before the era but…that we know to have been popular during the era,…or thirdly a typeface with characteristics that consciously evoke the era.…I'm going to go with the third of these…approaches, a recently designed typeface but one designed…with the specific purpose of evoking this era, and the key here is in the name.…
So I'm going to use the P22 Victorian Set, and there are three typefaces in this set.…I'm going to be using two of them, the Swash and the Gothic.…I'm purchasing…these from fontshop.com. A third font that I'll be using…is Laudanum which is available on tendollarfonts.com.…Fontshop, Tendollarfonts, both very useful resources for…extending your type library. But I realize you may not wish to purchase…extra typefaces, so I'm going to give you some free or low-cost alternatives.…
Now, if you have a membership to the Adobe…
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2/28/2014Check out the Pinterest board for this course at Victorian Typography for more inspiration.
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