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Typography

Pre Production

To start this project, we had to pick ten quotes from online or ourselves. I decided to mainly do quotes that are motivating and inspirational. After that, we went on to dafont.com and started downloading different fonts that we liked. I chose a few generic fonts that could be used for the larger chunks of text that I didn't want to emphasize. Then I chose some more bold and creative fonts for some of the specific words I would be using in my designs. After I chose my fonts, I started to work on my four designs. Once I had started my designs, I ended up downloading a few other fonts that fit my current idea better. 

Production

During this project, I definitely improved my skills in illustrator. I learned how to effectively pair fonts. Also, I improved a lot with the pen tool. I was able to trace a few images to create graphics, as well as edit a few fonts. I also learned that if you add a stroke to your text, you can add some dimension or make it bolder than it normally is. When I was arranging my text, I had a fairly sequential and normal order of my words. I turned some words sideways in one of my designs, but other than that, all of my designs were either centralized or organized like a staircase. Once we started working with color in our designs, it definitely added another aspect of creativity to our designs. This was definitely interesting to me, but I still preferred just working in black and white. I liked black and white because it puts more of an emphasis on the text, rather than the icons and colors. However, I'm still glad we got to experiment with both in this project.

Post Production

As a whole, I was fairly pleased with most aspects of my designs. I really liked the fonts I chose and the way I organized my text. My designs are definitely not perfect though. I would have liked to add a few more graphics to my design. Also, I think my designs would have been better if I had added a background to all of my designs that actually played in to my overall design because all of my designs either had a white background, or just a random square of color behind the rest of my design. However, given the time I had to create all of these designs, I am fairly pleased with how my designs ended up.

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