Learning to Set Display Type/ with John McWade.

Format:

Video

Author/Creator:

McWade, John, speaker.

Contributor:

linkedin.com (Firm)

Language:

English

Genre:

Instructional films.

Educational films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Carpenteria, CA:: linkedin.com, 2017.

System Details:

Latest version of the following browsers: Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or Internet Explorer. Adobe Flash Player Plugin. JavaScript and cookies must be enabled. A broadband Internet connection.

Summary:

Discover how to harness the power of type. Learn how to set display type, combine typefaces, work with type in photos, and avoid common mistakes.

Whether you're browsing the web, picking up groceries at the supermarket, or driving past colorful billboards on the freeway, typography jumps out as a distinctive part of the landscape. Type is a universal design tool?freely available, endlessly versatile, incredibly expressive, and fun to work with. Knowing how to harness its power is essential to effective design. In this course, learn how to do just that. Join John McWade as he explains how to design in a variety of styles and voices using display type, which is type that's set at headline size and above. He discusses type families that include strikingly expressive characters, shows how to combine typefaces, shares how to avoid common design flaws, and takes you through working with type in photographs This art form is applicable to print advertising, brochures, magazines, posters, fliers, slide decks, and much more.

Participant:

Presenter: John McWade

Notes:

5/02/20171

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.