Typography Project

Overview

In this project, we were supposed to create our name to show different terms of typography by using Adobe Illustrator. Before we started, we were given some basic knowledge about typography. This included different fonts, and parts of letters. We then used what we knew about Adobe Illustrator to create a name line to show our knowledge in typography. This project once again I believe was a very good stepping stone in my knowledge and I think it will be very useful in the future.

What I learned

We started off by writing our names and sizing it to our liking, and then making three different lines to represent the height of the different parts of the letters. We used two solid red lines and one dashed red line, to go in the middle of the other two. Then we labeled different parts of our name with words and arrows. For this part of the project I used the Option-Drag skill to copy the arrows and labels and change them to what they needed to be. We had to label at least 10 parts of our name with 10 different typography terms and then saved it all to have the it look like this down below.

Conclusion

I believe this project went well considering I am still getting used to knowing how to use new skills and different programs. I learned a lot of new things and I notice a lot of things too that I haven’t before. I also believe that my project turned our great.

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