Thursday, 9 February 2012

Poetry publication, research into typography

Looking through the book 'Typography Now', I have taken pictures of possible ways I could format the text throughout my publication. 

  












 
Combining a more simple layout of text with a vague illustration to help represent

an image with scattered text, this wouldn't work that well with long text as it wouldn't read well
pt size variety, fairly scattered but better flowing 

large type spread across double page

forming a shape through text. I like the idea of this however would try to avoid widows etc...

type manipulation, this is interesting but I don't want to get too involved with typography

slightly manipulated layout

slanted/angled text

combination of layouts, typeface etc...

shaped text

typeface variety

this idea could work with short poetry, highlighting the words through coloured letters

I like this idea, using part text, part rough illustration. However would poetry read well?