Happy Sunday, everyone.
I present to y’all the first draft of my typography poster. As I mentioned earlier, my assigned font is Garamond. I decided to jump straight to experimenting with colors after making some sketches, which I might include later on.
Goals
- Garamond is considered to be the most readable font, so I tried to emulate that idea by adding a book
- Books have a somewhat rustic feel to them. I wanted to keep the color scheme on the duller side.
- I feel like there’s something missing in the background. I’m considering adding a border, or maybe even digital photo corners to frame the subject better
- A subtle pattern in the background couldn’t hurt either
Hey Jess, I think your book graphic could be finessed into something nice (it might be fun to try scaling it up, so that the edges bleed off the edge of the poster?), but drop shadow and the text that looks an awful lot like Microsoft word art are just gimmicks. Garamond is a beautiful typeface that should speak for itself! Finally, remember what we’ve discussed regarding hierarchy. Is the designer’s name as important as the name of the font? Is there a clearer way to explain that the name of the typeface is the same as the designer’s last name? I do appreciate that you give the viewer a focal point with the title and the image, and that the body copy is an appropriate size to match it’s (relative) lesser importance.