GD 2440 - Typographic Design

Credits: 3

This formative course is an in-depth examination of the elements and principles of typography via hand-assembled and digital studio projects. Reader and audience demographics are also thoroughly covered. At the conclusion of this course, students demonstrate conceptual and technical proficiencies with letterform structures, legibility, readability, text manipulation, typographic space, and communication hierarchies.

Prerequisites: FD 1120 - Topics in Color and GD 1310 - Type + Layout.