Creative Muscle - Typography 2
Apr 29, 2025
Typography -
Again, typography is words IN images versus like a layer over them.
Another way to do typography is by representing other thinking, talking, or ideas that contribute to the story, but are not in the text of the story through "text boxes."
- Journal entries
- Thought bubbles
- Dialogue bubbles
- Words on a chart
- Info boxes
Here are a couple of examples.
Now it's your turn.
Creative Muscle Exercise
- Grab a favorite storybook and pick a page.
- What additional information, thoughts, feelings, or ideas could you add to story by adding a typographical "text box" to the illustration?
- Try it. What would you add? What would you put into the thought bubble, journal entry, etc.?
DEBRIEF:
1. Was it fun to consider what you could add? Or did it feel like the story didn't really need it?
2. Do you think this is something that could be helpful in your book? (Maybe not on every page, but on 1-2?)
3. What part of this was easy? Hard? Why do you think that is?