Level Two Typo Project

"Typeset Shakespeare's Sonnet Eighteen in an appropriate font and layout with particular attention given to leading, kerning, and letter spacing. No fancy tricks, just beautiful composition. Think about the meter of these words, their subject and the voicing you intend the reader to perceive as they read."

I began my composition using 'Georgia Italic', reversed out in white on a mid-grey background. I altered the leading to 18pt as the body of text needed a lot more space in order to be read gracefully and slowly, as a Sonnet should. Before I changed the leading the tightness meant that a reader would be more inclined to travel at high pace through the Sonnet as though it was unimportant newsprint. A sonnet deserves consideration of its delicacy and meaning.

Eventually I progressed to using 'Adobe Jenson Pro', which I feel has a much more beautiful and precious style. It has greater legibility than any other type I used. I decided to abandon the grey box as it was an unecessary and confusing part of the composition that could not be justified. Setting the text with a right alignment in 12pt, and leading at 14pt was my final decision, positioned at the foot of the page in an overall central position.