Digital Typography

Catalog description

This comprehensive course emphasizes the use of typography in the design process for use in branding, marketing collateral, web development, and film. The study of letter forms and fundamental typographic principles will be covered. Students study typography terms, type as image, and typography's relationship to message making and meaning with an emphasis on understanding current and historical typographic trends including the importance of technology in the development of their own type face including digitizing for use on the computer.