Reflective Essay: Intro To Typography

I remember sitting in a surrounded by a sea of new faces; We sat in groups of four at our respective tables. The room was dark and the only source of light came from a projector. On the projector, I read “intro to typography” in bold typeface. There was slight murmuring going on all around me but was finally pulled to a hush when our instructor walked in. He’s the kinda guy that doesn’t have a huge tolerance for nonsense and whining kids. Thankfully for him (and me), this group didn’t consist of any. My instructor looked from his to his right and said, “Alright knuckled heads; listen up!” immediately the remaining voices of idle chit-chat dispersed until there was nothing but silence. I saw him lift his raise his arm and point at the projector where the type was. “Intro to Typography. Practice it, learn it and respect it because you’ll be stuck doing this for the next couple of weeks.” throughout the rooms, I could hear silent murmuring going on mixed in with a few …show more content…
After a few days, our next assignment was given to us. He wanted for us to design a mock webpage. After looking over the rubric, I was a bit intimidated. Some of the few things that needed to be thought of were layout, colors, structure, flow and so on and so forth. Sitting down at my work desk, I proceeded to sketch up a sea of thumbnails for my project. The overall idea was to create a clean and simple design that’s minimalist to the eyes for a fake company. Simple, right? Not even close! My work station looked like one of those cliche brainstorming scenes you’d see in a movie. At the end of it all, I finally had a solid concept laid out. For my idea, It was going to have a bold sans-serif font to capture your attienton that’s paired with a tiny serif font for easy readability. The structure for the body of text was gonna be an easy-to-follow layout with a sharp color