In this lesson we are going to draw different font styles and create new ones that meet our desire. We will look at the history of fonts. Therefore we will also see how font style in relation to colours and shape contribute in choosing something and also on the other hand why using specific fonts style for a certain purpose for example in wedding and birthday cards, in magazine or in newspapers. Have you notice why for example newspaper use certain font style and also why do they not change the font or text style in each daily newspaper? Finally we will look at some basic design guidelines for text and fonts.
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Opening: (60 mins)
- Warming up - Story board using letters: This is a story board that tells what happened when 2 letters met.
- Trainer information:
Introduction to letters, fonts and text
Work: (120 mins) - Trainer: Information
- Trainer: assignment giving
Assignment 1:- choose your favourite letter and decorate it i..
Assignment 2:- Use the letters of your names to .. - Student: Presentation and discussion
Closing (60 mins) - Student and trainers: Brainstorming session/ class discussion about letters, text fonts, design and news ways of looking at these.
- Trainer: closing talk, homework and evaluation
30 mins
- What is a story board? --- This is telling of a story in visual form meaning having some clip/step in form pictures or graphic illustrations that help convey the story.
- Give each student a sheet of paper. Ask them to choose their 2 favourite letters whereby they will have to make a story board out of it
NB: Make a story board of six points showing for example if your favourite letters are A and G. show what happened when A met G at the end
To come up with a text you need to use letters or characters that will make the text, so has we understand there are millions of text styles or fonts but it depends on how you use it!! Is for readability purpose? Attraction or design?
These are questions you need to ask yourself before you choose a font. Remember you can use other fonts/text in other language to come up with a design for example text in Chinese's can be used to make a certain pattern for your website or printouts.
Tip: Trainer use the three handouts as a basis for your introduction to this topic
120 mins
Exercises explained:
Assignment 1:- choose your favourite letter and decorate it in different
size and style on one sheet. Make different style as possible (maximum
15 copies)
Assignment 2:- Use the letters of you names to make as many other words
as possible the least number of words are six but you can make many as
possible. NB- use only the words that makes your name
NB: Use different sheet of paper for each exercise- choose different fonts
on the computer.
60 mins
Give evaluation forms and homework.
Ask what they have learnt that they didn't know before.
1. Basic text design
2. Using fonts
3. History of fonts and alphabets
Knowledge*students knows
- that you can choose different font styles, font size and different style
for a purpose
- that you can use different fonts from other languages to make a design.
For example Chinese font.
- that you can use text creatively and appropriately to communicate effective
message.
Skills* students can
- Drawing of different font style.
- Create different fonts using different shapes. For example 3 triangle
to make letter 'C'
- use colour to decorate and give the text or letter more sound i.e. meaning
- Using colours in conjunction with text to give your composition more
meaning. E.g. DANGER and DANGER which of
these give more meaning??
Attitudes*students feels
- the importance of looking at letters as shapes and colours
- the improtance of playing and selecting shapes and tetxs and colours
when communicating
- Evaluation forms
- Newspaper, adverts and magazine to show how font has been used.
- Handouts
- One computer for each student to choose different fonts. Which they will draw and decorate.