Goal

The goal of this assign­ment is to develop an under­stand­ing of the typo­graphic attrib­utes of align­ment of type. A sec­ondary aspect of this exer­cise is knowl­edge and under­stand­ing of when and how to use page lay­out soft­ware rather than other forms of software.

Objective

By chang­ing the vari­ables of type in small incre­ments, you will notice the dif­fer­ences between par­tic­u­lar type­faces and space settings.

Background Reading:

• Kane, Text, p 76–113
• San­toro, Ch 7, p 181–211

Exercise:

You will be assigned a type­face from the restricted list. Please use the text file “exer09_11_text.txt” for your copy.

Using the text given above, the com­puter and Adobe InDe­sign to pro­duce each of the four verses in your given type­face to the fol­low­ing specifications:

• Page 1 Para­graph A — ranged (flush) left / ragged right
• Page 2 Para­graph B — ranged (flush) right / ragged left
• Page 3 Para­graph C — centered
• Page 4 Para­graph D — justified

Each para­graph should be repro­duced eight times on each page and in the Reg­u­lar face to the fol­low­ing specifications:

(Point Size/leading in points; Track­ing % Em [Range Kerning]):

• Para 1: ¹⁰⁄₁₂; 0
• Para 2: 10/10; 0
• Para 3: ¹⁰⁄₁₄; 0
• Para 4: ¹⁰⁄₁₆; 0
• Para 5: ¹⁰⁄₁₂; 0
• Para 6: ¹⁰⁄₁₂; 5
• Para 7: ¹⁰⁄₁₂; ‑5
• Para 8: ¹⁰⁄₁₂; 10

Use the Grid Setup from below to cre­ate a mas­ter page for your entire doc­u­ment. Place the text blocks with the top edge on the rule: Para 1–2 on .5”, Para 3–4 on 3”, Para 5–6 on 5.5”, Para 7–8 on 8”. The text blocks should be the same width as the columns you have cre­ated and as long a nec­es­sary to fit the text. Once all of the pages and para­graphs have been com­pleted, print out each page on the b/w laser printer.

Place PDF doc­u­ment (sin­gle file, four pages) in the appro­pri­ate D2L dropbox.

Grid Setup

Begin a file and set up a let­ter size (8.5” x 11”) doc­u­ment with .5” mar­gins on all sides. Using the top right hand cor­ner as the zero loca­tion, set three (3) hor­i­zon­tal guides at 3”, 5.5”, and 8”. Set two (2) ver­ti­cal guides at 4” and 4.5”.

Deadlines

Mon­day, Octo­ber 26, 2020. Exer­cise given.

Wednes­day, Octo­ber 28, 2020. Exer­cise due, black and white prints. PDF in appro­pri­ate D2L dropbox.