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Workshop
Micro & Macro Typography
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Typography is one of the keystones of graphic design, but mastering typographic skills can be a daunting task.
Fear no more, in this six-week class you will learn about typography on both macro and micro level – such as making good type selections, pairing typefaces, solving intricate typographic hierarchies, fine tuning long passages of text, and building typographic grids. Through a series of lectures, assignments, discussions, and demonstrations, you will complete this class to be a more typographically savvy designer. You will learn how and when to properly use dashes, get acquainted with OpenType features and master the glyph palette. This is not a class for absolute beginners; rather, it is targeted towards designers and students who strive to improve their typography game.
This class will meet for six Wednesday evenings and will skip the week of July 4th.
Required Materials
- Laptop with a version of InDesign CS4 or later
- Pencil
- Ruler
- Tracing paper
- Black pen
A workshop offered by Type@Cooper West, a collaboration between Letterform Archive and The Cooper Union Continuing Education Department, and held in the Monotype Classroom at Letterform Archive.