Typography

Affinity Designer


International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Standards

  • 1. Empowered Learner -- Students leverage technology to an active role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goal, informed by the learning sciences.
  • 1a. Students articulate and set personal learning goals, develop strategies leveraging technology to achieve them and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning outcomes.
  • 1b. Students understand the fundamental concepts of technology operations, demonstrate the ability to choose and use/troubleshoot current technologies.
  • 1c. Student are able to transfer their knowledge to explore emerging technologies.
  • 2. Digital Citizen -- Students recognize the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning and working in an interconnected digital world, and they act and model in ways that safe, legal and ethical.
  • 2a. Students engage in positive, safe, legal and ethical behavior when using technology, including social interactions online or when using networked devices.
  • 2b. Students demonstrate an understanding of and respect for the rights and obligations of copyright and sharing intellectual property.
  • 3. Knowledge Constructor -- Students critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to construct knowledge, produce creative artifacts and make meaningful learning experiences for themselves and others.
  • Students plan and employ effective research strategies to locate information and other resources for their intellectual or creative pursuits.
  • 4. Innovative Designer -- Students use a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful or imaginative solutions.
  • 4a. Students know and use a deliberate design process for generating ideas, testing theories, creating innovative artifacts or solving problems.
  • 4b. Students select and use digital tools to plan and manage a design process that considers design constraints and calculated risks.
  • 4c. Students develop, test and refine prototypes as part of a cyclical design process.
  • 5. Creative Communicator -- Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to their goals.
  • 5a. Students choose the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting the desired objectives of their creation or communication.
  • 5b. Students create original works or responsibly repurpose or remix digital resources into new creations.
    • *All standards listed above are from the SRR Industrial Technology Standards document based on the ISTE standards.
    Students are given time to read through a slide presentation about Typography (click here).

    A video is also shown that explains one of the most important advances in the printing world, the Linotype.

    Another video about the Letter Press also has some interesting historical information.

    For this project, Students should make their initials using a font that they modify in some way to create a more interesting combination of letters that could nearly be a logo.

    The teacher demonstrates some ways to modify letters in Designer by using the Node tool and Pen tool. See the video here on youtube or click here for a downloadable version.
    (Layer>Convert to Curves. Then Layer>Ungroup.)

    The finished project should be arranged nicely and display the student's initials in the original font, the font name, and a larger graphic of the altered letters. (See example below) Turn in a .jpg or .png file.

    Evaluation:

    2 points -- Formatted Correctly/followed directions
    4 points -- Use of Graphic and color
    4 points -- Sufficient modifications made
    10 points total.



    Image below by Jacob B.


    A cool example of how a modified font can be used: