Enhance the clarity and impact of your type—and your message—with effective use of color, contrast, and scale. Designer Ina Saltz shows you how to use these three elements to elevate your design above the rest. Learn how to choose a typeface, weight, size, and color for your type, and balance its scale in relation to the other graphic elements. Plus, discover how to develop your typographic eye by studying great designs and figuring out how and why they work.


Topics include:

Creating tonal weight with type
Selecting and using color
Creating contrast with size
Lifting type on complex backgrounds
Adding drama with typographic scale

Foundations of Typography: Color, Contrast, and Scale