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Typography: Color Contrast and Scale

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Learn to enhance the clarity and impact of your type—and your message—with effective use of color, contrast, and scale.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • Getting the most out of this course
1. Using Typographic Color
  • Text typography: Creating tonal weight
  • Display typography: Selecting and using color
  • Indicating hierarchy using color
2. Creating Contrast with Type
  • Creating typographic contrast with font choices
  • Creating typographic contrast with size
  • Working with type on complex patterns and backgrounds
  • Creative challenge: Getting type to pop
  • Creative challenge: Solutions
3. Using Typographic Scale
  • Harnessing the power of scale: Living large!
  • Small shifts in scale with big results
  • Weighing in on scale: Typographic relationships
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Ina Saltz

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