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Get Creative With Type: Fun Typography Ideas and Tips for Scrapbooking
Presents tips and techniques on creating interesting and eye-catching typography for a scrapbook or photograph album.
160 pages, Paperback
First published December 25, 2008
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July 15, 2012
Cool book for scrapbookers that want to improve their type skills (helpful to bloggers too).
I have hundreds of fonts on my computer. Seriously. And I still end up consulting Jake 75% of the time when I’m deciding which one to use. I don’t have the natural type design gene – I can tell when something is off, but I can’t tell what to do to make the type “feel” right.
My favorite part of the book talks about the anatomy of type, the different types of typefaces, and how to increase type readability. This has been super useful to me not just for scrapbooking, but for the blog as well.
The book also teaches you how to create a visual type hierarchy, how to best mix and match typefaces, how to increase readability, and techniques like curving text. I also love that this book has some pages with type multiple ways to demonstrate just how important choosing the right type is.
Oh, and did I mention that the example pages are amazing? Even if you aren’t paying too much attention to the type, the layouts make the book worth it on their own. Contributors include some of my favorite scrapbookers: Elizabeth Kartchner, Ali Edwards, Heidi Swapp, Kelly Perkey, and Mou Saha (just to name a few).
Bonus: There’s a CD with free fonts and other cool goodies.
I have hundreds of fonts on my computer. Seriously. And I still end up consulting Jake 75% of the time when I’m deciding which one to use. I don’t have the natural type design gene – I can tell when something is off, but I can’t tell what to do to make the type “feel” right.
My favorite part of the book talks about the anatomy of type, the different types of typefaces, and how to increase type readability. This has been super useful to me not just for scrapbooking, but for the blog as well.
The book also teaches you how to create a visual type hierarchy, how to best mix and match typefaces, how to increase readability, and techniques like curving text. I also love that this book has some pages with type multiple ways to demonstrate just how important choosing the right type is.
Oh, and did I mention that the example pages are amazing? Even if you aren’t paying too much attention to the type, the layouts make the book worth it on their own. Contributors include some of my favorite scrapbookers: Elizabeth Kartchner, Ali Edwards, Heidi Swapp, Kelly Perkey, and Mou Saha (just to name a few).
Bonus: There’s a CD with free fonts and other cool goodies.
July 11, 2011
What a great group of designers for this book and love most of the pages.
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