My best example of typography is the two-page magazine spread. This was a text-heavy assignment, so it was a typographical challenge, but I think it turned out well. I chose this as my typesetting example because the work I did on it was purely typography, since I recreated the layout and illustrations rather than designing them from scratch. I had to really work to make the text look exactly like it did in the magazine spread I chose, and I learned a lot of typography tricks for making things fit into certain spaces. Just from messing around with the text to make it look like my magazine article, I learned so many useful things: what the proper amount of kerning is in certain places, how to prevent hyphens at the ends of text lines, fixing widows and orphans, and using variations of the same font to make things cohesive. This assignment taught me the most about typesetting - what better way to learn than from professionals?
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