The design works because all the fonts seem to be from text families that are all have serifs and the text remind me of older times in the past. This was designed by the company Zazzle. It is used to draw the attention of customers by using different scales and designs to sell tea.
Martha Stewart’s design style is very colorful and bright. The pictures that she uses for her magazine are very fun and they seem to be fit for family events, such as a barbecue, or family activities, such as pumpkin carving. The typefaces are very bold san serifs for the titles, similar to Franklin Gothic , and for the subheadings, the text is slim and are serifs. The layouts consist of a large, colorful picture, and a text to the side of the picture.
1. Good Example of Typeface mixing
2. Bad tracking and kerning
3. Good line spacing
4. Marking paragraphs
The font Bauhaus was designed in 1975 by the designers Victor Caruso and Ed Benguiat. The font was based off of shapes that are geometric and the stroke weights are very plain. The stroke weights are basically the width of the separate lines used when creating a font. The font was originally created to be used for a design made particularly for display use.
It was originally created with an outline version, but it was eventually dismissed was refrained from being used. The Bauhaus with the heavy stroke was partly made from the text offers. Adobe, which is a company which focuses on design created an OpenType Std version.
Over the past couple of years, e-books, kindles, iPads, tablets, etc. have taken the market by storm. All of these forms of electronics have taken over the act of physically reading an actual book, but I am not worried. Personally, I feel that actual books will never “go out of style” because there will always be a particular group of people who actually enjoy reading a physical book versus reading from an electronic.
For example, I particularly like having a kindle. It is convenient and light weight and it can store multiple books at a time, which is a plus because once I have completed my book, I can instantly choose another book to read. On the contrary, one of my close friends actually prefer to have an actual book to read. She stated that reading from a kindle, computer screen, etc. bothers her eyes and that she would rather read the physical text.
It is amazing how quickly society caught onto the trend and how quickly many people converted over to tablets, etc., but it’s also very interesting how people actually prefer a book. When the kindle, nook, etc. was made, all of these electronics were made with the idea of convenience. The creators were thinking: “How can we make books more convenient?” I feel that books will always be present now and in the future and other forms of electronic reading will just be another option that people will have. There will always be a person who would want to read a physical, page-turning book.
-Vogue Pugh