SEC20/WK3: Typography and Practical Application.

Typography and Practical Application.

Discuss your understanding of Typography.

Typography is an anphabet fashion show where words are styled for maximum impact. It involves aligning and arranging letters and text with the aim of making our message clear, readable, and visually appealing to our reader while convaying the right emotions.

The concept of typography covers the way text is aligned, arranged, and the amount of spacing used. It includes chiose of lettering, fontface, type, style, and size.

Research 3 other typeface categories not captured in this lesson. Talk about them and also give a visual representation of the typefaces.

Besids the serifs, sans-serif, script, and slab serif fontface discussed in the main lesson. There are other fontface like the calligraphic, formal scripts, decorative, blackletter, geometric sans, and typewriter.

Calligraphic:
This type of font looks like an expressive handwriting carfully written with a flat-tip calligraphic pen. It results in some parts of the font being slimmer than others, with curves and fluid connections between the letters. Common examples of calligraphic fonts are:
Mistral, Ballerino, Romantic, Alex Brush

_{^{this Calligraphic font is called Lobster}}

Formal scripts:
These are cursive and elegant fonts that look like calligraphy but are often used for invitations to weddings and formal writing as they are more structural and traditional in nature. They are an improvement of some traditional calligraphic styles.
Some common formal scripts are Greyhound Script, Balmoral, Fling
_{^{This formal script is called Dancing Script}}

Decorative:
These type of font are also called display fonts, which are often used for short text as they are often hard to read. Some examples are Cuba and Morris Troy. In the example below, i am using a decorative font called vintage rotten
_{^{This Decorative font is called Vintage Rotten}}

Demonstrate your understanding of typography as presented in the lesson.

[Calligraphic]

_{^{fonts in the calligraphic family are often very pleasant, with its curvy looks and pinkish-blue colour(#1618b9), the text contrast well with its digital yellow background identified as #fff13a. The beautifullybright yellow invokes a good feeling, perfrct for an invitation to a party or any good news.}}

[Formal scripts]

_{^{Contrasting loudly as a hot red text with hex code #b9163d on a cool green background coded as #3affe1, the Pacifico font belonging to the formal script family with a left alignment will make a good mix for children related content}}

[Decorative]

^{_{The background colour is orange, better described as #ffaa3a. It contrasts well with the text colour that has a yellowish-green-hue identified as #c1ff72. The text is from the decorative fontface family and is specifically identified as Great Vibes with a right Alignment. It will make a very good contact card carring only a name and a phone number.}}

I love this font that looks like the work of a manual typewriter. Typewriter fontface has a lot of font under it. Below are designs made mainly of the typewriter fonts.

Conclusion
This weeks lesson has better explained the concept of font, font type, font style and fontface. This area had always been blurry with a hue of confusion. I am inviting @udyliciouz, @eliany and @dequeen to join us in exploring the facinating abilities of the canva app, following this interesting lessons...