Typography Activity #1

Name: Date: Period:

1. Change the font for each passage to communicate the mood or message reflected in each. 2. Under each passage: - Identify the font you chose and why. - Identify the category of that font. - Identify whether the font is serif or sans serif.

“Wanting to be someone you're not is a waste of the person you are. “ - Kurt Cobain

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.” - Mark Twain

“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth” - Abraham Lincoln

“I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.” - Audrey Hepburn “Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.” – James Dean

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” - Steve Jobs

"Dancing is silent poetry.” - Simonides

“I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine.” - Neil Armstrong

“Sports do not build character. They reveal it”. - Heywood Hale Broun Change the font of the following poem to reflect the message and mood. Be aware that you can change the font style, type or family for the title and author lines to give emphasis where needed.

Explain the fonts and styles you used below the poem. Be prepared to discuss.

“A Patch of Old Snow”

There's a patch of old snow in a corner

That I should have guessed

Was a blow-away paper the rain

Had brought to rest.

It is speckled with grime as if

Small print overspread it,

The news of a day

I've forgotten --

If I ever read it.

Robert Frost