Type workshop

 Type workshop notes

Playing with type - Great Expectations

How can I play with type to communicate a sense of voice?

This experiment for Great Expectations uses:

- A large, tightly kerned title to place emphasis on the title and the concept of great expectations; it weighs down the text underneath

- The text referring to family members (e.g father) are in a thin pale typeface to explore the concept of Pips' orphaned status, thus indicating a lack of family 

- Due to the book being focused around gaining status, the titles and names in the first page are separated and put in a bold font 

How can I experiment with type for my book?

- In order to convey a sense of rebellion and activism, I could disrupt rules of typesetting by having intentionally illegible type and type format 

- Due to Extinction Rebellion being climate change activists, the type in my book could be tightly kerned to save printing costs and be more environmentally friendly 

- The type could be broken apart with stickers to convey a sense of censorship and breaking down 'The Man'