COMD2327 – Week2

Agenda

  • Sign-up for Openlab and this blog ->
  • Type families
  • Anatomy of a Typeface
  • Homework DUE – Urban Legend – Please print out and I will also collect via dropbox
  • ePortfolio on the Openlab – post a final project from your COMD1167 class and link to this blog

Handouts

Lecture

InDesign Basics

  • Menu overview/ workspace/ pallets
  • Setting up document: size, measurements, columns, bleeds
  • Rulers and grids
  • Inches, points, picas
  • Placing text
  • Dummy text or latin text
  • Text threading
  • Basic formatting of text

Here is a copy of the in-class presentation:
COMD2327-Type Classifications

Homework