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just trying to exercise my typography skills
Posted by etahchen in
23 Nov 2009 — 2:25am
23 Nov 2009 — 2:25am
i made this just as an exercise. what do you guys think i can do to make this better? any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. thank you.
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23 Nov 2009 — 2:45am
i read it as 'the lion king' initially. maybe change type size etc etc for one or the other. also work on the letterspacing. some people would advise against tracking lowercase
23 Nov 2009 — 3:39am
I messed with the kerning on the letters. I changed the color to separate Lion and King. I kind of feel like changing the color is cheating in a way, because I should have figured out a way to separate Lion and King using just type. what do you think?
23 Nov 2009 — 3:47am
i would try and get it working in mono before applying colour. have you tried tracked small caps or caps for the 'king of the jungle' bit?
also the beware seems like an afterthought
23 Nov 2009 — 3:50am
Li, ng are too tight
both 'he' pairs are too loose
are you using optical or auto kerning?
23 Nov 2009 — 3:53am
with photoshop text tool, i'm highlighting the two letters, then choosing the size of the space between the two letters. i'm guessing that's called optical. okay, i'll fix what you said.
23 Nov 2009 — 4:31am
id recommend either indesign or quark for type
23 Nov 2009 — 3:39pm
wow, you've got a good eye for kerning. i fixed the loose and tight letter spaces. and i figured out how to do the small caps. what do you think now?
23 Nov 2009 — 3:49pm
23 Nov 2009 — 3:54pm
i think there needs to be some kerning on this one, i'll fix that when i get the chance
23 Nov 2009 — 5:06pm
@ etahchen
Are you using faked small capitals (downsized versal letters)?
Don’t use block text for the lines ‘KING | OF THE | JUNGLE’.
None of the examples with the (small) capitals does work.
The crown is missplaced in all examples.
The margin kerning needs to be corrected.
And the leading is not harmonically balanced likewise.
In your third example he is too tight now.
And somehow you arbitrary choose the point sizes and the capital and small letters in the beginning of the words.
23 Nov 2009 — 6:02pm
@Arno Enslin. Thanks for all the critique. And yes, I am using fake small caps, my New Century doesn't come with real ones.