Assignment #1:
TYPOGRAPH-IT

Demonstrate your ability to complete the following tasks in InDesign. Try to fit all items on a single page while maintaining legibility.

  1. Create a basic text frame containing filler text formatted with a serif font of your choice, increase the leading and right align the text.
  2. Create an Ellipse that contains filler text formatted with an italicized san-serif font of your choice.
  3. Download and install a font, use the font in InDesign to create a heading of your first and last name adjust font-size, tracking, and kerning as necessary.
  4. Use a Heavy-Weighted San-Serif, increase the size above 48pts and type the word "AVALANCHE" in UPPERCASE; and adjust the kerning to eliminate problems, and shift the baseline for 3-4 of the characters.
  5. Insert a GLYPH (or dingbat) at a size greater than 250pt in your document, change its color and place it beneath all other content in the document.
  6. Insert a small text-frame, type a sentence or famous quote into it, choose a script typeface and adjust its point size. Rotate the frame 15 degrees and enable text-wrapping.
  7. Create 3 small text-frames; one for each of these words: "ANGER, "LOVE", "ACTION" ; find a suitable typeface for each word (think about the word's meaning, the typeface should reflect the meaning)
  8. Type a sentence so that it follows a path, this could be a curve or something you create with the pen-tool.
  9. Add an additional text-box or modify an existing one, so that the text is presented with outlines.
  10. Create one last text-box, type the word "UNIQUE" into it. Experiment with the word, do something that you have not already done.

 

Many free font sites can be found on the web, consider these three: