- Look for examples of all caps.
Go through books and magazines and junk mail looking for good and bad examples of text set in all capital letters. Go out in the town where you live and look at signs. All caps are frequently used in signage. Which fonts work best? Which are hard to read or just plain ugly?
- Capitalize some headlines.
The documents you created for the assignments in Lesson 2, Lesson 3, and Lesson 5 all contain headlines and/or subheads. Set all those headlines and subheads in all capital letters in whatever font you were already using. How does it look? Which look best?
- Try different fonts.
Change the fonts for all the headlines and subheadings in those documents from step 2. Try serif, sans serif, and script fonts. Use some plain and fancy decorative fonts. How readable are they? Do some of those fonts in all caps work better on shorter or longer headlines?
For our next lesson in this series we’ll be tackling punctuation, specifically quotes, dashes, and ellipses.
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Quotable Design
| “Right and wrong do not exist in graphic design. There is only effective and non-effective communication.” — Peter Bilak - Illegibility |
| Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. |
| “Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better.” — John Updike |
