today follow along and protest your typography with my video we're going to
take a look at real-life situations where typography is used in graphic
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so grab a pen and paper or simply keep count on your phone because I'm going to
show you six different designs were one or two things are wrong with a
typography on design so if each of the six design situations you're gonna have
20 seconds to view the design and then try to use your knowledge of typography
to see what needs to be changed and improved now each of the six examples
will have a set amount of points given to the right answer so let's get
cracking so here is a magazine article now like I mentioned you do have twenty
seconds but you can of course pause the video too so on this example we're going
to look at the left hand side page or the double page spread and there's
something that really needs to be changed to make this article better in
terms of typography now what would you change it's a designer okay so for the
first example the magazine article needs some use of hierarchy hierarchy gives
importance to specific areas of typography and this can be accomplished
with size as well as the color and also type thickness
now if you got this one correct and give yourself 20 points the second example
for you today is a business card and there is something about the design in
regards to typography that can really help the design a whole lot can you work
out what it is
now it's kind of similar to the last example but for the original design the
two main areas of text use the exact same fonts so to make things more
visually appealing you can font pair and this can be done
by using the same font family but one thick and then one thin set of text or
you can use different font families to provide contrast now if you got this one
correct give yourself another 20 points
for the third typographic example we have a page to design right here and to
be honest there are quite a few things wrong with it from a typographic
standpoint however there is one major flaw in the design in terms of
typography
so the original poster simply used too many font families and typefaces the
second design actually only uses two in total and also I did tidy up the
alignment too but if you guess that too many fonts were being used
give yourself 15 points so the next example is a quick Lego design this one
might be tricky for some of you out there but I'm not sure just take a close
look at the design and see what can be improved in terms of typography
so the original Lego design has poor kerning and that is in the upper logo
type some letters were posted too close or too far away to each other and this
renders the design unprofessional and not visually appealing now if you got
this one correct to give yourself 20 points now you've got two more examples
left but in this one we have a flyer design of sorts but can you tell me the
two different things very wrong with the design in terms of typography and each
correct answer will get you 15 points apiece
so the first thing very wrong here is the alignments if you look at the
original design may typographic elements are not aligned properly which creates
confusion and an ugly design but also the second point is that much of the
text is not legible in the original design now firstly because the yellow
strip down the left is too bright and in the bottom right corner the white tax is
over a bright blue so there's a total of 40 points to be won here okay and so
lastly today we have this brochure design and we're concentrating on the
left-hand side but if you can see what's wrong with the typography you're gonna
get yourself 30 points
the answer is there are things known as Windows in graphic design and windows
aware sentence finishes on one or two words and then a typography moves down
to the next paragraph which basically leaves a huge gap this is unappealing
visually and it breaks the viewers reading rhythm when the view in the
design as a whole so there was the last 30 points with a total of 135 points in
the video now if you scored 0 to 20 then you really need to fix your attention on
typography education online and both in books too it's not a bad thing because
we will need to start somewhere learning about typography if you got twenty-five
to forty that's still a bit of a low score but it does show that you have
some understanding of typography now forty five to eighty is a pretty decent
score that dictates you have a fairly good understanding of typography in
graphic design and I would suggest anything above 85 is a pretty high score
so congratulations but if you want to see more videos on
typography and you want to improve your skills as a graphic designer
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