Typographic exercise: using type to express words
I am doing a class at the university about typography, and I’m loving it! There are many things you can express using typography. One of them is words. When you limit yourself to using only type and colour, you can create beautiful things.
Using only one typeface and one colour (Helvetica, red), I did this classic typographic exercise. Here is what I came up with.
The words addition and migration
Transition and contraction
Disruption and compression
Subtraction and elimination
Expansion and repetition
Have you done a similar exercise? Did you use different words, or if you used the same ones, were your results different?
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on September 26th, 2008
Hei Eivind! Takk for koselig kommentar på den lille hverdagsbloggen min:)
Æ har sett sida di før, syns den e veldig flott! No kan selfølgelig æ nada om grafisk design da, hehe!
Ha en fin dag:)
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