Typography lessons high school

RIBBON LETTERS! This is a simple technique for getting a ribbon style letter. There are a lot of different techniques out there, but thi...

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A portrait made out of...words?! Yep, you heard me, my 8th grade 2D class made their portraits out of words. Lots and lots...

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When it comes to making textual elements work for you, there are a few tried-and-tested techniques of typography that can render your design elements highly effective.

Much like the portraits from my previous post, I was able to actually find landscapes made of type. Granted, what I will be doing will be both simpler and more complex, but I feel these are good examples of what I want to do when it comes time to make the overall landscape in my piece. "Farm" "Beach" "The Church" Of the 3, the Church is my favorite so far. the first 2 have this complex but childlike quality to them, but number 3 has this sense of…

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I loved how this person really seemed to focus on the forms and shapes of the letters to play with positive and negative space, and just like our current workshop, she only uses two letters!

Pen and Ink Surreal Hand Drawing - Conway High School Art Project

Intro to Typography - Lettering Basics Lesson Plan Learn Parts of a Letter, Basic Lettering Vocabulary: Ascender, Descender, Baseline, Meanline, Cap Height, Stem, Bar Arm. Cases of Lettering, 4 Styles of Lettering: Roman, Poster, Script, Unusual.