Mix/Don’t Mix Typography

The purpose of this assignment is twofold:
* To rev up your type skills and
* To push you to follow very specific parameters

Review the typography information in the Resources, Tools & Info, (under General Design) area for good mixing and “proper handling”.

Choose two things, ideas or people that either REALLY go together or REALLY DON’T go together. We looking for extremes. For example:

Bread & Butter go together, right?
Oil & Water, don’t.

The “MIX” option has proven to be the easier to pull off.

Using what you learn in the articles and examples, choose the two words that either go together or don’t then represent them in fonts that work well together or don’t respectively.

Begin by choosing your two words, and consider how you can “tell the story” of these two words with THE TEXT ONLY…i.e. NO IMAGES!
Then design your ending, resting screen accordingly, and plan to work towards that end.

TECH SPECS:

FOR BLACK ON WHITE :: POSITIVE
Stage: 720 x 480
BG Color: White
Text: Black
Configure: More or less in the horizontal center of the stage, slightly lower than middle.
Font Size: Large, as large as works best to activate the entire space. White space is a beutiful thing, but all things in balance
At the Top, indicate either: MIX or DON’T MIX:. The font must:

  1. All Caps
  2. Use the proper punctuation.
  3. Place the baseline at 40px.
  4. Be 20 pt. Arial
  5. Color: Gray #999999
  6. Centered horizontally

Legend at bottom: (i.e. which fonts you used)

  1. Horizontally centered at the bottom
  2. Baseline at 455px.
  3. Color: Gray #666666
  4. 14 pt. Arial
  5. Note the two font names in order of appearance.

Add a stop action to the end.
Name it FirstnameLastname.fla to turn in.
FOR WHITE ON BLACK :: NEGATIVE
Stage: 720 x 480
BG Color: Black
Text: White
Configure: More or less in the horizontal center of the stage, slightly lower than middle.
Font Size: Large, as large as works best to activate the entire space. White space is a beutiful thing, but all things in balance
At the Top, indicate either: MIX or DON’T MIX:. The font must:

  1. All Caps
  2. Use the proper punctuation.
  3. Place the baseline at 40px.
  4. Be 20 pt. Arial
  5. Color: Gray #999999
  6. Centered horizontally

Legend at bottom: (i.e. which fonts you used)

  1. Horizontally centered at the bottom
  2. Baseline at 455px.
  3. Color: Gray #666666
  4. 14 pt. Arial Bold
  5. Note the two font names in order of appearance.

Add a stop action to the end.
Name it FirstnameLastname.fla to turn in.

If you choose to do a SPLIT SCREEN with some portion of the background BLACK, and another WHITE, follow the guidelines for the MIX and the LEGEND accordingly.

This means that if your upper half is BLACK instead of WHITE, the word “MIX” should be color #999999.

Please ask if you are uncertain about any of this BEFORE beginning.