Graphic Design and Page Layout

Principles of repetition, contrast, and proximity. Visual communication means: size, position, alignment, tangents, fonts, colors. Optical compensation.

Typeface anatomy, serif vs sans-serif, typographical point. Repetition and contrast in font attributes: family, size, weight, tracking. Optical compensation in fonts, kerning. Font libraries, file formats.

Analogous, complementary, and tetrad palettes, connection to proximity and contrast principles, correlation with the other visual means. Color and gradient libraries.

Microsoft PowerPoint: Selection Pane, native vector graphics and alignment tools, importing vector images and LaTeX expressions, extracting source files from presentations. Interactive elements, dynamic references, animation and transitions, layer naming convention for the Morph transition. Baking presentations, exporting to video.