Practical Typography

B242 - Summer 2024/2025
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Practical Typography - BV002PT

Student survey results
Credits 2
Semesters Winter
Completion Exam
Language of teaching Czech
Extent of teaching 2P
Annotation
The course is aimed at students interested in deeper knowledge of typographic rules, their historical origination and practical meaning. Students can use this information for writing their reports, individual projects and bachelor or master thesis as well as for their own publication activities (proceedings, journals, etc.). The course extends student?s knowledge from other courses e.g. Presentation skills.
Study targets
The course is aimed at students interested in deeper knowledge of typographic rules, their historical origination and practical meaning. Students can use this information for writing their reports, individual projects and bachelor or master thesis as well as for their own publication activities (proceedings, journals, etc.). The course extends student?s knowledge from other courses e.g. Presentation skills.
Course outlines
1. History of the book printing
2. Printing technology - history and present
3. Fonts
4. The book - structure, type page
5. Rules of line and page breaks
6. Rules of straight composition
7. Rules of straight composition
8. Rules technical composition
9. Difference of foreign-language composition
10. The proof-sheet
11. Job composition, special components
12. Colors, color space, ICC profiles
13. Pre-press
14. Reservation
Exercises outlines
no exercises
Literature
Kočička, P., Blažek, F., Mohelská, L.: Praktická typografie, Computer Press, 2000.
Dvořáková Z.: DTP a předtisková příprava, Computer Press, 2008.
Smékal, J.: PostScript a PDF, Grafie CZ, 2002.
https://moodle.fel.cvut.cz/courses/BV002PT
Requirements
no