Typography

TASK 1

What is typography?

-  typography is art and technique to put in or use letter or symbol so that meaning can be well delivered to     reader and easier reader understand and attracted to read it. this is example typography :

     

typography is very important expecially in magazine.

firstly,to setting body text for comfortable reading.such like choosing body text font that suit to publish,as example serif fonts.but its depends on the nature of the publication.

  

                                                  

why i say serif font, its because its easily us to identify the word and read quickly. most of magazine us serif font as body text font.

next, body text size. choosing the proper size should work with the width of the column and should appropriate for the targeted audience.Let's say majority readers is seniors the saiz should be larger . as example 9pt to 12pt.

next is tracking body text. tracking is adjusting the overall spacing of a group of letters , words or even whole paragraphs and blocks of text. Along with the kerning, tracking is the most used feature when adjusting body text . although tracking is also widely used in headlines and other textual elements, especially if the text elements is bigger in size.

                                       

next is drop caps and initial letters. Drop caps below the baseline and initials sit on the baseline but are much bigger than the body text. this is the example of drop caps and initial letters.

       

 After that, typographic widows and orphans .Those are the words or just short lines of text consisting of few words at the beginning or at the end of paragraph which are left all by itself at the top or bottom of a paragraph or column of text. this is the example of typographic widows and orphans.

                                                

Next is text hyphenation. It is a process of dividing the words at the end of the line of the text. It is symbolized by hyphen mark which is dividing the words by syllables. It is often adjusted together with justification settings and good setup of both settings should result in good flow and easily readable body text.  Hyphenation can be adjusted in two ways. Manually and automatically.

TASK 2

Identify Self-Reflect.

   - Sketches :

 Final Outcome :

Adobe Ilustrator

Photoshop

TASK 3

"Experimental alphabet (own alphabet)"

Theme:

For this task I used and continue my task 2 project to create my own font. I got inspired to create this font after watching the epic movies, The Lord Of The Ring and The Hobbit. And I named it Midgard. Its same meaning to middle earth.

Research:

Where On Earth Was Middle-earth?

- Middle earth is the central continent of the imagination Tolkien's world but not a name of entire world.
- Middle-earth. J.R.R. Tolkien’s invented mythology centre on an epic story of the struggle between Good and Evil, but it also included an elaborate back story, a complex of languages, genealogies, cultures and peoples and a map.

- Created by Tolkien somewhere in the 1930s, the map shows the ‘mortal lands’ of Middle-earth, which according to Tolkien himself is part of our own Earth, but in a previous, mythical era. At the time of the events described in ‘The Hobbit’ and ‘The Lord of the Rings’, Middle-earth is moving towards the end of its Third Age, about 6.000 years ago.

(http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/121-where-on-earth-was-middle-earth)

- Inhabitants on this continent is Men, Elves, Dwarves, Orcs, Ents and other.

(http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Middle-earth)

Middle-Earth is the world as a whole, minus those parts removed from the world by Eru - the Undying Lands. This includes the unseen east and south, and could also be used to refer to our world if accepting Tolkien's intent of LotR as a mythology for our world.

Middle-earth is just archaic English for oκονμένη, the inhabited world of men. It lay then as it does. In fact just as it does, round and inescapable.

(letter #151)

Tolkien's Middle Earth includes other places that are not on his maps of Middle Earth that are still part of that region, but there are also unmapped areas that are outside of Middle Earth. Tolkien described Middle Earth as basically being surrounded on all sides by ocean, so anything that was "across the seas" would be somewhere else. 

(Michael Edenfield)

Design process

-Final outcome-