Unit 04: Publish! Projects 13 14/04/2020 - 11/06/2020
To do based on tutorial:
- change the border, make it wider
- set the type smaller
- more imagery
- chose different main text font
- develop a colour pallette
On the website velvetyne.fr, I found a couple of typefaces I could use for my main body of text. Bluu Next by Jean-Baptiste Morizot and Julien Imbert; Lack by Adrien Midzic or Millimetre by Jérémy Landes.
After testing all of them in my design I ended up choosing the latter one Millimetre light as it was the one that fit better stylistically.
As I have a heavy part of text this was the typeface that was better for readability purposes and for aesthetic purposes. Even though it is and looks like a modern typeface, I believe that combines very well with the design and the concept. Also as I am trying to focus more on the experience and format part of the publication going for a typeface that simply looks good is the way I am following.
From a stylistic point of view, Millimetre is a geometric, constructed sans serif, with quite wide proportions even if the width of several glyphs could contradict this statement. Millimetre embraces the retro-futuristic, architectural, technological and science-fictional connotations that come with it.
A typeface that was initially published on the 24 of March 2016, however as an open-source font it is constantly in development (last development on the 30 of March 2019).
Bluu Next
Colour Palette
In order to develop a colour palette, I decided to look through my favourite deck of tarot cards and choose my favourite card in visual terms. However, as I couldn't decide between two cards I created two colour palettes.
Being as I completed two publications and still haven't decided which one to hand in, I decided to divide each colour palette for each publication.
Illustrations note
On the 26th of May tutorial, my tutor suggested I added more imagery into my publication as it was too heavy on text. As I set the type smaller I suddenly had a lot more space for imagery. Therefore adding more illustrations was something that just made sense, I then made these almost pictogram like illustrations to go with the text.
Here are the illustrations with both colour palettes.