Sunday 2 March 2014

Design Principles: 15 Questions

5 Questions to do with type design:

  1. What are the anatomical features of type?
  2. What are the most successful features of type?
  3. Why are serif fonts so widely used?
  4. Why are sans serif fonts so widely used?


5 Questions to do with legibility and readability:

  1. What font is proven to be the most legible?
  2. Does italic make a typeface more or less readable?
  3. Does the loop tail on a 'g' make a word more readable?
  4. How much spacing between letters is acceptable before it's readable?


5 Questions to do with colour theory:

  1. Which colour is the most pleasing to the eye?
  2. Which colours are best to use in designs for colour-blind people?
  3. What is subtractive colour?
  4. What is additive colour?
  5. How do different colour affect each other?

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