Week 6

Changes to make:

Leading on titles

As you can see in these two images of my section openers, I have lowered the amount of leading. 

Move full titles, section openers and contents pages over to the far right of the page

The lower image shows how I have moved the title of my section opener over to the right. This works because it isn't pressed up so tightly against the left hand page, and gives it room to breathe.

Tracking on upper case captions, as well as bring them down a point size as they look way bigger than the captions in regular

The top image is of my new captions with more tracking and lowered one point size to 7pt. You can see in the bottom image how much more cramped the subheadings feel without the extra tracking.

Optically align capital Es on each page (location and size of letter)

This was actually much quicker and easier to do than I thought. It looks so much better now. I couldn't believe how different some of the placements of the Es actually were until I started fixing them.

Change pangram because Mick Jagger's name is split between two lines.

This is the new pangram. In a funny way I like that it references the colour red seeing as that's the colour of my book.

Change images (Garamond, Didot, Bodoni as well as the essay images as I had used the Vox classification sheet twice - I didn't realise we could use any of the typeface images at the front of the book)

Trying out different images for this spread. I went with the type punch but it will be interesting to see how good the image quality is because it's walking the line of not being high enough.

The Didot spread was hard as none of the images apart from this Bruce Springsteen one were of high enough quality to be at that size. As much as I love Bruce, the image is in black and white which doesn't match the rest of the typeface images but I'm thinking I might change the colours of the images next semester anyway so I went with it for now.

The rest of these are edits that I made but didn't feel like I need to annotate here.

Give contents page some hierarchy by bolding and using paragraph spaces

Give more room between entries in glossary (I didn't actually change this, because I played around with it again and still can't get it looking good when there are about 4 lines of text on the other page. I'd rather close together lines than a horrible little orphan.)

Tracking on running headers (make new paragraph style for them as I don't want to change the tracking on my regular captions)

Change em dashes back to en dashes as this was how it was in the actual book

Fix a couple of shapey rags

Change section openers (doesn't have to be done before the hand in).

Grid Analysis:

I then printed on SRA3, trimmed using the cutter in the photography block and handed in.