From the course: Typography and Layout: A Practical Guide
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Timetables: Part 1
From the course: Typography and Layout: A Practical Guide
Timetables: Part 1
- [Instructors] Timetables are often read by people in a hurry, so they should be simple and easy to read. Choose a typeface, most likely a sans serif, with open and distinct letter forms. Convey hierarchy through weight, size, and color. Make sure there's contrast between the type and its background so the timetable can be read in all sorts of lighting conditions. What we want to avoid with tables is data prison, the result of too many row and column rules, where each piece of information looks like it's trapped within its table cell. So even though we will design with a table, the end result shouldn't necessarily look like a table. Some timetables should be read horizontally, others vertically. Use tints to guide the redesign. And because timetables require lots of numbers, choose a font with tabular lining numerals that have a fixed width and align with each other more easily. In my example, I have the finished…
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