Trying to write in english for this one, just to get used to it :) Hope there isn’t too many mistakes!
Question 1
1.
Typography is combining letters and characters into words and sentences that can be read and understood by people. It is about the relationship between the characters, and to the context.
2.
Typography is not drawing or painting letters by hand. Typography is not making letters with food or paper clips and other materials.
3.
FF Tundra: http://ilovetypography.com/2011/10/05/the-making-of-ff-tundra/
I think this typeface is best suited for small format printing. It was designed with readability in mind, and is a little narrow, wich means it will work nicely on print where you usually have a limited surface to work on. It was designed for continious reading, and emphasizes the horizontal line which makes it good for body copy and headlines. The open letterforms means that it will be easy to read in small sizes, and the characters have details which also look good close up.
Question 2
1. & 2.
This is all the photos I took during the day. I saw much more but it was difficult to remember to document everything! But I will continue to observe typography in my daily life.
4.
Good example:
This is the novel I’m currently reading.I think it is good typography because the designer has chosen two complementing typefaces: one serif (Minion Regular??) and one sans serif (Myriad Condensed?). The letters are nicely kerned and i like the contrast in size on the words «Broen» and «Roman» beneath it. The authors name have some extra tracking and her surname uses some «ligatures» that gives it a «flowing touch». It looks professional.
Bad example 1:
This letters have horizontal scaling, which is veeery bad. They looks squished and tve letter spacing/tracking/kersing is irregular, and there are a mix of upper-and lovercase letters. The coloring is also weird.
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Bad example 2:
This is a student magazine without a soul.
The line lenght is too long. The spacing between paragraphs could have been replaced with a first line indent. It is readable but the typography is unintresting.
Question 3
1.
I watched the whole course, but didn’t do all off the excercise files because many of them are created to show something rather than do it. But here hare some pdfs:
baseline_shift / bulletlist / compound / customgrid / customligature / fractions / gradient / Hyphenation / intersect / multipleplace / Placeholder / reply_coupon / semi_auto / setupgrid / Shapedbox / Southbank3 / stretch_headline / styles_create / tableaders / Transparency / Typemask
2.
Newspapir frontpage <– pdf
3.
This magazine spread is for the magazine Computer Arts. The article and illustration was found here.
Magazine spread <– pdf