Typography: Workshop 2

Van De Graaf

Secret canon - divide a page into pleasing proportions. 

Symmetrical and asymmetrical layouts

Works with any page width:height ratio

Draw and x across the pages

Bottom right hand to the middle

Draw straight up and across to the intersecting point

Creates a bowtie

Use it to draw your boxes for proportion of your pages.

Proportions enable your hands to on the white space without covering text up.

Leading

Column width - based on legibility

Type area light and open

Should be 7 words per line for a text of any length

Rhythm of reading

The canon with dividing grid lines.

Tip: Drag the rules to a new point to start it from zero, place a guide at the bottom and in the measurement put /2 and it will divide it by 2 - can divide it by any number

 My grid layout

 Use of grid

I didn't like the camera image being in the middle so I put to the left margin edge instead.

 I felt there was to much white space at the bottom so I put the text into two columns instead of three.

Full proportions: