Tuesday, Sept. 22

• Announcements• Objectives• Why so many fonts?• WILIST• ~~10-minute Break~~

• Objectives• Project 2: Inspiration• Preview/apply CD tools• Font Family Hunt – TBD• Project 1 review• 20-min. Challenge• Homework this week

Announcements

• Participation points– Saturday– Next Saturday, 10/3

• Maker’s event

• Uploaded videos to Canvas file folder

Objectives

• Be able to describe the differences and similarities between a font and a typeface.

• Give examples of 3 typefaces and describe the subconscious information each conveys.

• Describe the role the home computer has played in text and how it is used.

Purpose of Font Variations

• What’s the difference?– Typeface = Arial, Georgia– Font = Arial italic or bold

Why So Many Fonts?!

• What does type do?– Makes books easy and inexpensive to produce

• What does font do?– Makes information readable, fit better on page

• What does font convey?– Mood, authority, credibility, taste, etc.

• What have computers done for fonts?– More accessible, more plentiful, more misused

• Give some examples of fonts and moods

WILIST

• A font is a size or weight in a typeface– A Typeface is a family of text

• Fonts tell a story that influences– Select fonts to convey mood, character, era

• The computer has turned everyone into a typographer

BREAK: 10 Minutes