Typesetting Principles 

Think about these principles in relation to album cover

Alignment 

Left aligned

Ranged left with ragged right edges is a common arrangement of text as it allows easy reading and typesetting.

Justified text

Justified type can look clean and classic. When it’s carelessly set, justified type can make your text look distorted and hard to read. Proper justification is a tricky technique to master.

Centred & right aligned

Centred and right aligned text is not

commonly used as it is difficult to read.

In typography, “rag” refers to the irregular or uneven vertical margin of a block of type, often on the right edge.

Tracking 

Tracking refers to the amount of

space between a group of letters

to affect density in a line or block of

copy. Readability decreases when

negative tracking is applied.

Wide tracking opens up the type,

giving it more airy feel with white

space. This can also become less

legible if used in extremes.

Line Length 

Efficient reading depends on a comfortable

line length. This is between

40 and 75 characters, or 7–12 words.

An overly short line length causes

a more extreme and ugly rag in a

body of text, whilst an overly long line

length decreased legibility and the

eye finds it difficult to track the next

line easily.

Windows & Orphans 

Windows and orphans are lines or

words left hanging or separated from

a complete block of text. They can

look awkward and should be avoided

wherever possible.

This includes single (or 2 short) words

left art the end of a paragraph, line

that appear alone at the top of the next

column.

Rivers

In typography, rivers, or rivers of

white, are gaps in typesetting, which

appear to run through a paragraph

of text, due to a coincidental

alignment of spaces. The rivers are

most noticeable with wide interword

spaces caused by full text

justification or monospaced fonts.

Type Experiments 

Experiment with rules/techniques;

• snake
• change direction
• repetition 
• half it 

Type Experiments based off frequent clubbing destination for Larry Levan in Chicago. The form/layout of the text follows the geometric shape of the streets within the centre of Chicago and some of the more imprecise loose forms around the city and surrounding areas.

 Mix of type experiment from geometrical and loose forms from Chicago. This could be used as the back cover to the 7" Vinyl.

 Type forms made from a grid system based of train links in Seoul, Korea; Hunee's parents birthplace. I like the mix of red and black within these forms, they could maybe be placed together to forma  sort of puzzle on the cover.