From the course: Typography: Choosing and Combining Typefaces

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Mixing many typefaces and making it work

Mixing many typefaces and making it work

From the course: Typography: Choosing and Combining Typefaces

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Mixing many typefaces and making it work

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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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