Class Info

  • Date: Tuesday, November 9, 2021
  • Meeting Info: via ZOOM

Topic

Objectives

  • Learn and understand the importance of color as it relates to typography and legibility. Students explore contrast and legibility through the use of color (other than black), imagery (photographs), and type.
    • Contrast and the relationship of foreground and background.
    • Typographical color vs. actual color

Activities

1. We will create a new InDesign Document.

9 inches by 9 inches, .5 inches margins all around, no facing pages
You should now have something that looks like this. Go to MASTER PAGES and we will add guides
Once in MASTER PAGES, then go to LAYOUT> CREATE GUIDES. Enter 2 rows, 2 columns with .5 inch gutter. OPTION fit GUIDE to MARGIN
You should now have 4 squares which look something like this.

2. Create various abstract textures with whatever materials that you might have at home.

  • You can use paints (acrylic, watercolors, gouache, markers etc.)
  • Do not find them on the computer, create your own.
  • Take a picture of your textures, and PLACE them in your InDesign document.

3. SAVE your InDesign document

  • Export as a PDF
  • Name file: Lastname_fistname_colorandwords_1.pdf

To-Do After Class

Expressive Textures

  1. Choose 4 words that each of your images makes you think about. For example: fall, moon, lava, hurricane
  2. Think: about the image itself, and how the word could be designed to represent it
  3. Design: Use typeface, size, case, tracking, placement, meaning, color, and contrast to design your word into each of your textures.
  4. Upload to Google Drive: 17. Expressive Textures
  5. Name file: Lastname_Firstname_ExpressiveTextures.pdf

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