The Typography Fundamentals course will provide students with a broad understanding of contemporary typography and how to make intelligent, confident typographic design decisions. It is intended to help students develop a professional grasp on the craft of typography and the application of professional processes to content design. It will consider technology, across multiple media. You will receive an overview of the evolution of typography in both forms and printing technologies and you will also gain industry knowledge and printing standards.
Some of the topics you will learn through this class are: grid systems, (column, manuscript and modular). Swiss typography, type classifications which is fundamental to understand and setup typography and type anatomy. Learn how letterpress works and know that it is still highly used in 2021. Gain skills in designing book layouts, and get a grasp of web type, the ideal type set up for websites and applications as well as Google fonts.
By the end of this class, you will be able to identify general typeface and font families, examine and analyze individual letterforms and typefaces, develop micro and macro-typographic analytical abilities, create basic letterform designs, display knowledge of typographic sequencing and progression, and produce great typographic layouts.
Get a glimpse of what our former student Ankita Mantri designed for this course. See some samples of hand-lettering digitized by former student Ian Erlich and be ready for the world of expressive typography by breaking the type rules after you learn them.
