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The Nuts & Bolts of Text Typography
September 14 @ 9:00 am - September 15 @ 5:00 pm
The text block is fundamental to creating any typographic system, whether on the page or on screen. But what typeface to use and at what size? How do we determine line length and leading? And what about readability and hierarchy?
Over the course of two days (Saturday to Sunday, September 14–15 from 9am–5pm), we will examine typographic details as well as overarching principles from the letter to the page. We will begin by considering the interdependence between type size, leading, line length, ragging, and justification. And after an introduction to traditional methods of shaping the page, we will set continuous text within the grids of a single-column and multicolumn page.
We will be drawing from the extraordinary resources available to us at the Letterform Archive, in particular their library of historic type specimen books.
This two-day workshop is for anyone in need of a refresher on setting a well-behaved text block. Basic knowledge of InDesign is required.
