Week 1: Talking Type-Intro and Overview
Course Welcome
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About this Course
About the Assignments
Course Tools
Academic Integrity
Additional Resources
Week 1: Talking Type-How Peer Review Works
What is peer review?
Why Peer Review?
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Peer Review Tips
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How to apply feedback
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Week 1: Talking Type-Course Communication Policies
Instructor Presence and Staff Support
Forum Guidelines
Requesting Peer Reviews
Week 1: Talking Type-What is Type?
Font versus Typeface
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Week 1: Talking Type-Describing and Measuring Type
Reviewing key terms
Stroke and Proportion
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Type Anatomy
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Measuring Type
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Week 1: Talking Type-Choosing Type
Choosing a Typeface
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Week 2: Typefaces and their Stories-From Humanism to Rationalism
Prepare Yourself
Typefaces and their Stories
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Bembo: Humanist Letters
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Didot: Enlightened Refinement
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Week 2: Typefaces and their Stories-The Modern Era
Clarendon: Type for the Masses
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Futura: the Typographic Avant-Garde
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Helvetica: International Modern
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Week 2: Typefaces and their Stories-Type Today
Scala Sans: Typographic Remix
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Week 2: Typefaces and their Stories-Assignment
Research Sources
Week 3: Putting Type to Work-Type in Space
Working with Type
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Typographic Space
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Page Space
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The Grid
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Week 3: Putting Type to Work-Typographic Hierarchy
Creating Hierarchy
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Week 3: Putting Type to Work-Rules and Conventions
Typographic Conventions
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Week 4: Making Meaningful Type-Expressive Typography
Making Meaningful Type
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Typesetting with Expression
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Beyond Typesetting
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Week 4: Making Meaningful Type-Bringing It All Together
The Typographic Poster
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Week 4: Making Meaningful Type-Assignment
Course Credits