Activities
Use the following activities to help you solidify your knowledge of type design:
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Open LiveMotion, create a canvas, and set type using the Properties palette. Cruise the menu of fonts. Randomly choose a font and determine which category it fits into.
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Consider that you are designing headers for a Web site. The client is a rock-and-roll band. The goal is to create a great-looking page that expresses energy and dynamic movement. Choose several fonts from your collection that you might use on this page.
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Suppose that instead of a rock-and-roll band, your Web-site client is a classical quartet. Which typefaces will you choose for this design? How do they differ from the ones you chose in the preceding exercise?
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Create a typographic logo with your name that expresses your personality. Combine type where appropriate to convey your dominant features: warmth, enthusiasm, shyness, and so forth.