Microtypography: Basics of Typographical Composition

Overview

“I will explain how I made the first decisions for our project, related to the format, the typographical selection and the definition of the spine margin.”

In this video lesson David Kimura addresses the topic: First decisions for our project, which is part of the Domestika online course: Microtypography: Basics of Typographical Composition. Learn the basic principles of editorial design.

Partial transcription of the video

“[Music] In this lesson we are going to start working on our project. We will make several of the most basic decisions on design issues, format, typographic selection and the definition of basic margins. [Music] We have here a base document on which we are going to begin to define some of the fundamental parameters of our project. The format we have in front of us is a letter format The text that we are going to work on has already been pasted This is the story The Empty House from the series from Sherlock Holmes Stories and well, I'll talk first of typographic selection. Being a literary, L...”

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Course summary for: Microtypography: Basics of Typographical Composition

• Level: Beginner
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• 4582 students
• 4 units
• 18 lessons (2h 19m)
• 4 downloads

• Category

  Calligraphy & Typography

• Software

  Adobe InDesign

• Areas

  Design, Editorial Design, Graphic Design, Typography