Studio Brief 2 - Spreads 6, 7 and 8

The first thing I did today was change the images

on spread 6 so the font examples weren't annotated

as I felt that the annotations were a bit messy and

somewhat cluttered the page. I think the spread looks

a lot better without them. I also added a title, which I'll

go into more detail about later.

I then started working on spread 7. I had previously

decided that RGB and CMYK should share a spread

with Chromatic Value and Pantone because they're

all fundamentally about colour. I distinctly separated

the two by the arrangement of the text. The RGB and

CMKY page has text in two columns, which is meant

to show opposition between the two, because you can

only use one mode at a time. Chromatic Value and

Pantone don't work like this however, so I placed the

text on that page in a singular column which shows how

  they work together in comparison to RGB and CMYK.

I'd also decided that Alignment, Rivers and Hyphenation

would be on the same spread as Hierarchy of Type, as

both topics are about type and how to make the most of it.

I used various different types of alignment to highlight the

points made in the text about alignment, and this also

allowed me to use hyphenation in the text about hyphenation.

Unfortunately there wasn't much scope for me to actually

use a typographic hierarchy in the Hierarchy of Type page

because of how the rest of my spreads had already had

a hierarchy built into them, which is why it was important

that the images clearly demonstrated the concept of hierarchy

of type, which is why I picked the images I did. They are placed

where they are to create a sub-section for colour, as colour

is a part of typographical hierarchy, but isn't the first thing that

springs to mind when you think about it. 

When I choosing how to do my titles, I created a document

the width of the grid space that my title was going to fill, and

one by one typed in all the titles of the pages in order to find

the longest one (Alignment, Rivers, and Hyphenation). I then

changed the document size so that it was the same height

and width of the grid space so I could re-size the text to be as

big as possible so that the title fitted on two lines. I then rounded

this down to the nearest conventionally used point size, which

was 48pt. I used this point size for the titles, and chose to stick

to Helvetica regular as that was the font I'd used for the rest of

my hierarchy and I felt it'd been successful to this point. I also

made sure that every title took up two lines and that the first line

was longer than the second line to show consistency.