Typography 1

Course Code

DESN 100

Academic Year

2016-2017

This Macintosh-lab based course introduces the student to the craft of typography through the study of professional typographic vocabulary and definitions; a brief history of type; font management and the fundamental elements of classification and type identification, introduction to typesetting (selection, size and spacing), kerning, tracking, leading, hierarchy; and the awareness of, and corrections for,common type errors.