CD Label

Font

Now that you have learned the typography basics, you will select the font you will be using for your CD cover. Remember the typography rules that you learned and try to keep your font choices somewhat related and connected.

Watch the short optional video tutorial to learn how to use DaFont and to install fonts to your computer (if you don't know how to do it).

Then go to http://www.dafont.com/top.php & type the title the name of your main singer who is going to sing the song, in the "Custom preview" box like the image on the right.

This will be the large title on the front of your CD cover. Since it is the large main title, it can be decorative. Check out http://www.dafont.com/themes.php to see what themes are available. When you have found the front you want, take a screenshot of how it appears and download it. Attach both as attachments to an email.

Then do the same as you find a text font for your subheadings on your CD but it should not be as decorative as your first font. Type the song name in the custom preview and take a screenshot.

Finally, find your text font and type "the song lyrics" in the custom preview and take a screenshot of your font; this should not be decorative and must be very easy to read. Make sure to attach in an email your three screenshots and all three sets of fonts you downloaded. Post to the same WordPress email and the link to the spreadsheet.Then install the fonts you downloaded into your Font Book on your Macbook Pro.

Design

Using your more decorative font, use it for the font for the singer's name. This will be the largest font on the CD. The second largest will be the song name with a second font that you downloaded.

Applying what you learned from Unity & Continuation you will create your CD label.

Download the CD label template and open in AI. Create your designs in the layer titled "Design Here" and do not add any extra layers or unlock anything.Open AI and create a 117mm square RGB which will be the parameters for your CD label.

For the design of the label you may only use typography and shape designs that you create.

• Choose one color from your color scheme and create using Kuler a monochramatic color scheme with two additional new colors (three in all) of the same hue to form an underlying color look for your CD label. If you are already using a monochramatic color scheme then just use the same colors. Take a screenshot like the one below of your scheme choice.

• Use proximity to group the text somewhat together as deemed appropriate. Remember to use "white space" effectively
• Apply repetition to either the singer's name, song title, or shape(s); if using repetiion on text it is suggested that the repetition be a lighter opacity and different size
• Use continuation for any part of any text or shape repetition to bleed off the edges of the CD label (use it effectively)

When you are finished, go to your "Do not Touch" layer and unhide the third sublayer like the example below to remove the gray background.

Go to file Export, JPG, & click Use Artboards and Range 1 like the example.

Export as a full quality JPG and include the Kuler screenshot in a post to WordPress and the link to the spreadsheet. Also post the image to the MF Picasa album and type your classID in the caption.