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Add typography slides

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Why? Because:
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Users often perceive aesthetically pleasing design as design that’s more usable.
Users often perceive aesthetically pleasing design as design that’s more usable. -
<a href="https://www.nngroup.com/articles/aesthetic-usability-effect/" target="_blank">https://www.nngroup.com/articles/aesthetic-usability-effect/</a>
</blockquote>
Limits? Yes:
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form follows function. - Horatio Greenough
</blockquote>
Do not overdue it!
Each design element should have a purpose.
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# Typography - Font
# Typography - Typeface
**serif** for books (see header).
Line-like Serifs help the eye read.
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many more variations...
Each font may has different weights
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# Typography - Font
Typefaces may consist of fonts of different weights
<img src="images/typography_weight.png" width="50%">
Many free-to-use fonts exist, like [google fonts](https://fonts.google.com/).
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# Typography - Size
Balance font weight, font size, line length and line height.
Adjust font size, line height & line length.
Line height
<img src="images/typography_line_height.png" width="48%">
Increase line height when:
- font size decreases
- font boldness decreases
- line length increases
A line should be around 15 words long.
If its too long, the eye can not easily find the start of the next line.
If its too short, the eye has to move around too much.
There are other factors that affect readability, which we will see on the next slide.
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# Typography is about Balance!
Balance font weight, font size, line length and line height.
Improve readability:
- increase line height
- increase font size
- increase font boldness
- decrease line length
<img src="images/typography_light.png" width="48%">
<img src="images/typography_regular.png" width="48%">
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You may want to define a spacing scheme for consistency.
Like 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 (geometric progression).
Like 5, 8, 13, 21, 34 (Fibonacci numbers / golden cut)
Like 5, 8, 13, 21, 34 (Fibonacci numbers / golden cut).
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