Five things I learned about type:
1. Leading is very important, especially when it comes to body copy. It's good to give your body text room to breathe in your layout.
2. Consistent paragraph styles (body text, headings, subheadings, etc.) help your design flow from one page to the next.
3. Graphics can add a lot of visual interest to your layout, but it's important to not focus too much on decoration and lose the message.
4. Using a grid can help to organize your design and make each page of your layout more consistent.
5. There should be some kind of relationship between your content and the negative "white space" surrounding it.
Five things I should have learned about type:
1. From JenyAnn's book, I realized that angling type in different directions can add a lot of visual interest to your layout, especially if your content emphasizes those directions.
2. From Baylee's book, I learned that varying the color scheme can help to keep the reader engaged.
3. Also from Baylee's book, I noticed that you can fit more content into your layout by utilizing folded out pages.
4. From Jordan's book, I saw that overlaying text over images and designs can be very successful when done well.
5. From Sidney's book, I learned that consistent borders combined with text folios can help enhance your publication's visual flow.
Five things I refused to learn about type:
1. Type can be asymmetrical and uneven if done well.
2. Decoration isn't as important as the message.
3. It doesn't matter how much time you put into a design. What matters is the visual syntax and how well the final design suits the message.
4. Type is all about figuring out the relationship between design elements.
5. Even if it's a "final draft", design work is never really finished. (I can't accept this because my perfectionist self would go crazy if this was true.)
