Objective:

I can use the Appearance and Graphic Styles panels in Illustrator to produce expressive text.

Web Links:

Adobe Illustrator CC: Graphic Styles
Adobe Illustrator CC: Appearance Attributes
Adobe Fonts: https://fonts.adobe.com/
DaFont.com – Download Free Fonts: https://www.dafont.com/

Topics Discussed:

Typography
Appearance Panel
Graphic Styles Panel
Expressive Text

Assignment:

Visit the Adobe tutorial links. Follow the instructions to learn how to use the Appearance Panel, and how to save object appearances as Graphic Styles.

Text that visually looks like the thing it is describing is called Expressive Text, and Illustrator has special tools that make the production of Expressive Text extremely easy and effective. Today we are going to explore the use of these tools to produce some expressive text of our own.

1. Check out the Adobe Fonts and DaFont.com links. We will discuss in class how these sites make it easy to download and install new and useful typefaces for use in your designs.
2. Watch the in-class demonstration, or visit the links above to learn how to use the Appearance Panel, how to save object appearances as Graphic Styles, and how to access the pre-set Graphic Styles libraries.
3. Open your Text Week document in Illustrator and go to the third (lower left) artboard.
4. Use the pre-set Graphic Styles libraries and the Type Tool to create five words that look like what is being described. For example:

Try to use different words and graphic styles than the ones in the example. When you have all five words and all of the previous assignments, save your work. We will continue to work on this document next week.

Assigned: February 8th, 2024
Teacher Pacing Due Date: February 9th, 2024

Today we will continue exploring typography, which is the art of arranging type to make language visible. To fully understand typography, we will explore many different aspects of type, including the history of typography and how it has evolved throughout different time periods and developed in the digital age. In today’s assignment we will discover and investigate four of the major categories of type.

Objective:

• I can identify and explain the four major categories of typefaces by creating a document that displays and defines all four categories so I can better understand Typography as a technique for communication and as an art form.

Vocabulary Words:

• Type
• Typeface
• Font
• Serif
• Sans Serif
• Script
• Ornamental/Decorative/Display
• Typography
• Typeface versus Font
• Digital Typography
• Font Foundries
• Free vs. Paid Fonts
• Online Typeface Resources

Links:

Wikipedia – Typography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typography

Wikipedia – Typeface
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typeface

Wikipedia – Font
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font

Paratype – Typeface Classification
https://www.paratype.com/help/class/

Fonts.com – Type Classifications
https://www.fonts.com/content/learning/fontology/level-1/type-anatomy/type-classifications

Dafont.com – Free Fonts
https://www.dafont.com/

Topics Discussed:

• Serif Fonts
• Sans Serif Fonts
• Script Fonts
• Ornamental/Decorative/Display Fonts
• Online Typeface Resources

Assignment:

1. Using the web addresses above, find the definitions for each of the following:
   serif type
   sans serif type
   script type
   ornamental/display type
2. On your upper right artboard, create a large headline for each category, and a one sentence explanation of the definition.
3. Include a sample image to show me what each of the four type categories looks like.
4. Make sure all four definition groups fit on the second artboard!
5. Save your document. We will continue to work on this document throughout this week and into next week.

Example:

Searching For Type Example

Assigned: February 6th, 2024
Teacher Pacing Due Date: February 7th, 2024