What to Avoid When Pairing
Lesson 6 from: Pairing Typefaces: Tips for Combining FontsMichael Stinson
What to Avoid When Pairing
Lesson 6 from: Pairing Typefaces: Tips for Combining FontsMichael Stinson
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6. What to Avoid When Pairing
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What to Avoid When Pairing
So record just a couple of pairing don's before we before we close here um number one avoid personality conflict if you can if there's a lot of personalities in both like a mandarin stoke here you start to look at it the stresses how they're going every which way in direction um that's a good indicator of maybe pairing something else like picked the one with the more personality and perry parents with something else more standard like a sand saref that's that's um from the grotesque or gothic um, classifications or even just a standard saref like harriet or or miller also try to avoid pairing similar classes try to do this as well. This is a good way to kind of keep everything separated, but but working together here we have clear and on iraq well and they're both slabs right? So there might be too much masculinity and these two combinations, if you will with such heavy weight, you know, with the with the slob thing going on and another one is, uh, clashing personalities, maybe again t...
here's too much personality like powerhouse in clearing don where um they're trying to, you know, both the main actors in the role here, okay, you can always find me on twitter at type ed and type of dot com and thank you very much
Ratings and Reviews
Sarah
A good warm-up course for typography. I learned a lot and gained greater insight on fonts and type.
Ali Shadle
Michael, did an awesome job. He gives you a system for pairing font faces, and if you follow his instructions with your fonts, you'll really nail down why 2 different types of typefaces work or not. Thank you Michael!