Font pairing

Explore what a simple font

can communicate

All Caps

Lower case.  Size.

Italic.  color.  size.

size.

color.  contrast.

bold.  color.

background

explore more fonts for the visual style and visual communication

specialty or display fonts

handwritten fonts

Title Text

serif fonts

sans serif fonts

these two basic font styles pair

well together

font pairing: combing two or more fonts that both contrast and compliment each other.

usually two specialty fonts to do not work together.  too complicated.

instead, pair a specialty/display font with a more simple font

experiment with spacing, alignment and color to enhance the pairing

your assignment is to produce two different versions of your name paired with two different fonts

consider what you want to communicate through your typography choices

Font Pairings

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Font Pairings

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