Friday, 27 November 2015

Publication - Typeface Changes

Having started writing some of the content for my publication, I've found that some of the original decisions I made aren't as suitable in practice as they are in theory. 

The first change was that I altered the quotes from Quicksand to Gotham. I found that the decorative nature of Quicksand clashed with the titles and was too distracting from the body copy. Gotham is still a very modern font so fits the element of pastiche, but is more minimal while retaining similar character styles and sizes so it won't impact the hierarchy too much.

I also made the body copy smaller, as I found that even the small change of making it 9pt rather than 10pt made the chunks of text hold their shape a lot better both against the right side of the columns and around the quotes. It now is somewhat reminiscent of Derrida's Glas in how the text is split up.


Glas - Jacques Derrida









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