Wednesday, 25 March 2015

Exercise: Experimenting with layouts

This was another Elements task to experiment with different fonts, presumably to show us that not all fonts work well together or as a book cover text. As we had worked with Verdana and Georgia fonts in the last exercise and the suggested fonts were Arial and Times New Roman, I predominantly worked with these for this exercise but then I also looked through the list of fonts available and picked out another two that I felt were similar to the four that I have just mentioned. The other two fonts I chose were Silom and Helvetica.
Here were my experiments;

Example 1
Example 1 has the Title in Verdana (Bold) and smaller text in Georgia.

Example 2
Example 2 has the Title in Arial and smaller text in Times New Roman.

Example 3
Example 3 has the Title in Silom (regular) and the smaller text in Helvetica.

Looking at all three images open together above, I think I prefer the Verdana font title. It's not too bold like the Arial, even though it is set to Bold, and the Silom font is just too tall and narrow with too much space between the lettering.
I like all three os the smaller texts although I think that the text is slightly clearer and easier to read in the Georgia font when it's set to '12' like they all are in the examples. So I prefer the first layout out of the three, with the Verdana title at a size of 50.15pt with the move cursor.

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