Aidan 1 - Typesetting
Typesetting
With Aidan this week we took a closer look at typesetting. I found this workshop really interesting because of my general enjoyment of layout design.
“Typesetting is the composition of text by means of
arranging physical types or the digital equivalents.
Stored letters and other symbols (called sorts in
mechanical systems and glyphs in digital systems)
are retrieved and ordered according to a language’s
orthography for visual display.”
Some of the main points were to utilize kerning, tracking, leading, rag and cropping to create metaphorical emotions, portray meanings and display thoughts.
With Aidan this week we took a closer look at typesetting. I found this workshop really interesting because of my general enjoyment of layout design.
“Typesetting is the composition of text by means of
arranging physical types or the digital equivalents.
Stored letters and other symbols (called sorts in
mechanical systems and glyphs in digital systems)
are retrieved and ordered according to a language’s
orthography for visual display.”
Some of the main points were to utilize kerning, tracking, leading, rag and cropping to create metaphorical emotions, portray meanings and display thoughts.