There are some ideas of the double page spread layout, according to my research the layout of the print matters in the past are mostly text, images not usually not the focus of the page. They usually placed on the side or off-centered. After the development of technology, quality of colour printing and camera got improved, images started to occupy more space of the prints.
As we have discuss that we should have a flexible layout and grid system, and could be made a little difference between the different sections of the book. The black box represent the image.
the font selection
Body text //
I suggest using Century, Gill Sans or Helvetica as they are the typeface which are commonly used nowadays and they had been exist for a long time, Century(1894), Gill Sans(1928) and Helvetica(1957) I think they are the appropriate choice for the book, with the topic we are working on.
Title //
We sort of decided the 3 sections for the book - Decline of Hand-Writing , Progress of Technology , the Merge and the future...
{Decline} using calligraphy style font - Edwardian Script , Lucida Handwriting , Zapfino
{Progress} using the significant typeface of the period 1901~1975 - Bauhaus , Eurostile , Futura
{Merge} digital mimic hand-writing - Bradley Hand , Brush Script , Handwriting-Dakota
The above fonts are default in Mac Computers, I think it would be great using fonts which is in everyone's computer rather than finding fonts are custom made.
Colours are not decided yet as we will need to see the images and style before making decision.
Hey Herman. I like. I think body type wise, I'd be leaning towards Helvetica. Century connotes to modernism more and might not apply as effectively to all three sections. I'm emailing you now re: starting a style guide email thread!
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