EX175 Make a poster or book cover using two fonts

To extend on from using words with photographs, we are going to intentionally play with one photograph and two fonts.

You can either make a poster or a cover for your book. The words can go on the photograph or with your photograph. You words may be a quote or title and author of your work.

In typography (the design of type) it is considered good practice to use two fonts in a book. Three starts to get confusing and the typefaces start battling with each other. One might be considered a little bland.

When choosing your main font, the one that represents you and what you are trying to say, consider its tone, weight, age, printability (some fonts are designed to be easy to read on a computer whilst others are designed for printing), look, command, and intonation.

Find fonts that speak to you.

Don’t know where to start? Look at your favourite book and see if you can work out what fonts it uses.

Do you want your work to have a colloquial feel, an old world feel, a comic feel, a hand written feel, and old world feel or a modern feel? Fonts say different things to the reader.

Once you find a starting font, find a second one that goes with it. Look in google for pairings that others suggest.

Make up your draft and see how it looks.

Now try the same photograph with two other fonts and then again with two more. You may consider changing the size and placement of the elements.

Post your work in the forum for discussion on 6th June at 9.30 am Sydney time. https://lensclub.discussion.community/post/ex175-make-a-poster-or-book-cover-using-two-fonts-12641079?pid=1335193908#post1335193908