August Typography Challenge

[Quinn]

This month's challenge is to focus on your typography! Yay! As many of you know I'm nuts about typography. I look for good examples everywhere. Some of my favorite inspiration has been from billboards on the freeway. How companies use all the aspects of typography (text, font, spacing, placement, color, etc.) can make or break how easy their name/logo is to read, how it catches your eye & if you remember it later.

Your challenge - should you dare to take it - is to get inspired by any typography you see around you & create a stunning title for your next layout. No digital alphas can be used: fonts only.

When posting your layout, please include where the inspiration came from. If you need some fun ideas to get you started, I love the "ilovetypography.com (http://ilovetypography.com/)" website. Check out their wallpaper section (http://ilovetypography.com/love/). Or even start noticing the typography used with business names. Our very own DSM logo can be very inspiring for title-work on a LO.

Here's my LO/example. I found the inspiration in the wallpaper section in the "i Love typography" website. So fun! Credits: Digital Scrapbook Memories "The Playground" (papers), "In the Mood" (date stamp); Template by Shandy Vogt; Fonts: Adobe Caslon Pro, Calisto MT, Bodoni Hand

[Jenny McDonald]

So cute Quinn! I love how 99.9% of all you pages has a great journal entry type deal! I have to get better at that.

[cjoy2day]

Quinn i love that page and I love how your boy is holding the baby in the sling. That is so precious.

Here's my version, I used my new CD In The Mood, Kit Playful. Word Art inspired by Dare 2 B U kit @ Digitalfreebies.com (http://digitalfreebies.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=3405)

This is my 14yr old son BTW. He just got back from being gone all summer. He grew 4" on me and is now a whopping 6'1". Did I mention he's 14?

[Alishaw]

Very cute Quinn & Jaime! Love how the titles have personalities of their own.

[RobRob]

Ok, dumb question probably, but what is typography? From looking at your page I am guessing using more than one font, size or style...maybe? Am I close?

[cjoy2day]

Typography (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typography) is the art and techniques of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. Type glyphs are created and modified using a variety of illustration techniques. The arrangement of type involves the selection of typefaces, point size, line length, leading (line spacing), letter-spacing (tracking) and kerning.

[RobRob]

Wow. So involved!

[Alyson]

This is a great challenge Quinn. I was thinking we should do a typography challenge, and I should have known you would be on top of it even before the idea was in my head. I definitely want to participate in this one. Your page is so great and so is cjoytoday's page. Love the titles!!

[Lizy Vidal]

What a great idea.. I will try to make one. By the way the LO's look great!!!

[Quinn]

Great typography, Jaime! And what a fun LO. That would shock me too if my child came back over 6 feet tall! Wow! Thanks for playing!

[Quinn]

More on typography from wikipedia: "In traditional typography, text is composed to create a readable, coherent, and visually satisfying whole that works invisibly, without the awareness of the reader." "Display typography is a potent element in graphic design, where there is less concern for readability and more potential for using type in an artistic manner. Type is combined with negative space, graphic elements and pictures, forming relationships and dialog between words and images."

[April]

Great challenge. I need to practice typography everyday because I am so DARN BAD at it.

[RubySass]

Me too, April. Thanks for the challenge again Quinn.

[kmsarles]

I LOVE fonts! I have 437! (I just counted them. I had NO IDEA I had so many!) I love all the pages with cursive type on top of block type. So this isn't inspired by anything in particular, just a style.

[cjoy2day]

Love your page Kelly, what a cute little girl

[Kelli West]

Kelly that is so cute!

[Quinn]

Excellent typography, Kelli! That cracks me up that you struggled to find cowgirl stuff. Since it's not tough to find out here, Germany seems a long way away. She looks fabulous, though! Love the LO.

[Jamie Hamblin]

so cute!

[Quinn]

googled "typography" & selected "images" & found this inspiration so I used it on the QP challenge. Isn't typography fun?

[Quinn]

here's more cool inspiration I found:

[Jamie Hamblin]

Cute Quinn,

I've found the example that i want to do, now it's just finding time!

[Lizy Vidal]

I have been trying to down load images to the threads and I finally figured it out. yay :cheer:

[Quinn]

oooh Lizy! I love it! Very nice typography!!!

I've found the example that i want to do, now it's just finding time!
the harder thing to find, I'm afraid. :) can't wait to see it!

[Kelli West]

Lizy that look awesome!what a fun page (and typeography)!

[Jamie Hamblin]

Okay. Mine is not really a typography, but I took advise from Quinn and found inspiration!


http://forum.digitalscrapbookmemories.com/album.php?albumid=81&pictureid=759



BTW>>>> how do you make links and name it something? Like for example... here

[montmeag]

Jamie, just type the word out (i.e. here), highlight it and then hit the link button (the planet-looking thing). A dialogue button will pop up and that's where you put the address. I didn't know how either until someone else here (Alyson?) told me.:)

[lanz]

Here (http://forum.digitalscrapbookmemories.com/album.php?albumid=93&pictureid=770) is mine for the typography challenge. I used the same LO for the Olympics.

[LucyLu]

here (http://forum.digitalscrapbookmemories.com/album.php?do=editpictures&albumid=28&pictureids[]=841) is mine. I began to make this for the Olympics but then re read the rules and the pictures are supposed to be squares..

[Kim Hansen]

Dottie, how come we are not friends--I thought we were:). I went into view your page and it said I was not allowed.

I don't know how to run this new forum, so I'll leave that up to you on sending me a request to be your friend because I would love to view your layout. Thanks.

[Kelli West]

same here! I went to view it and it said this... "Dottie does not care for you so much! You will not ever be able to view her pages..tough luck" ... lol...just kidding! I know you are my friend!

[LucyLu]

i have no idea what is up with that... i left the album public... so here is it ... and I love you both you silly girls

[chryslergreen]

Dottie, this is a great page! I love it!

[Jenny McDonald]

Dottie and I aren't friends either! (Crying)

[Jenny McDonald]

BTW, thats a stunning page!

[Kelli West]

Dottie I always knew you loved me!!! :) :) GREAT PAGE!! I love how the picture took shape of the flower!! beautiful work!

[crystalclark87]

Great pages girls! I love this challenge Quinn! maybe I'll be able to do it tomorrow at your party!

[Kim Hansen]

Oh Dottie, I love how you love Randy. You two are sooo good together. Keep up the good work. I also like the saying.

[peverill]

Dottie that is a great page. You can feel the love that you have for each other.

[cjoy2day]

Dottie your man looks like he's fun. Great page.

[supermombritt]

Cute page Dottie, but we are not friends either. I was saddened by that fact as well.

[April]

Can you guys see Dottie's layouts with this link? I think she just posted the wrong link???

http://forum.digitalscrapbookmemories.com/album.php?albumid=28

Here is the direct link to the specific page: http://forum.digitalscrapbookmemories.com/album.php?albumid=28&pictureid=841

[Jamie Hamblin]

Thanks April.. I was wondering what that was

[Quinn]

oh Dottie! I LOVE it! What a beautiful LO! Great typography!

[Quinn]

& Lana! I LOVE the balls LO! Adorable & such fun typography! Great job!

[lanz]

Thanks, I thought it turned out cute too.

[A-to-Z]

Great pages everyone! I love typography but I'm not super great at it so I need to practice.

[kcaldwell50]

Hope I am not too late in getting in on this one. I really love doing typography. I am using the page I just posted for the Digi Olypics wrestling challenge.

[Jamie Hamblin]

Never too late! SO cute Kim!

[LucyLu]

kim .. very nice... how fun for the kids

[kcaldwell50]

Thanks ladies....yes the kids really love it. They have a creek in the back of their house and he drives them back there to go look at it. Great memories for them.

[cjoy2day]

Very nice. I love it

[Quinn]

Nice LO, Kim! I like the typography! and.. that looks like so much fun! I wish I wasn't too big for that kind of thing anymore! Love your LO!