From the course: Typography: Choosing and Combining Typefaces
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Mixing many typefaces and making it work
From the course: Typography: Choosing and Combining Typefaces
Mixing many typefaces and making it work
Every rule can be broken in divinely successful ways, those are the words of one of my teachers, Donald Jackson. Of course, the one rule that can't be broken is you must first know the rules so you can understand how they can be bent or broken. So far in this course, we've talked about the pitfalls of mixing incompatible faces and muddling your message with too many typefaces, a typical beginner's error that I call type soup. In general, less is more, but sometimes more can be more. Here are some examples of design projects that have successfully mixed many typefaces and made it work beautifully. This book cover design by Roberto de Vicq combines 13 different typefaces, and it is a marvel of complexity and compatibility. A limited color palette helps tie it all together. But, have a look at each of these typefaces. They are ornamented, shaded, shadowed, inlined, outlined, dimensionalized with bits of script alongside squarish caps, compressed and extended caps, caps with a Victorian…
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Combining typefaces based on stylistic contrasts4m 15s
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Combining typefaces that have similar anatomical proportions2m 29s
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Combining typefaces from the same foundry or designer2m 46s
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Combining typefaces based on mood or emotion3m 16s
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The rule of three typefaces: Using serif, sans serif, and slab serif3m 53s
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Mixing many typefaces and making it work3m 41s
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