Exploring “hand written” elements to personalize the storytelling aspects along with incorporating news article headlines. These are both concepts I liked but felt that they crowded the final design so they were removed.

I liked the layout of my recto page but it felt uncomfortable to have my writings on the right and Poe’s story on the left. In my final layout I decided to rework this layout reversing the recto and verso pages.

I like how clean Brandon Grotesque is as it mimics some of the same structure as the serif typeface, Garamond.

While liked the variety within the Davis Sans family the type didn’t feel as balanced as I wanted on the page when arranged against Le Monde Livre.

I knew I was going to have a lot of text that varied greatly in length so flush left was the best way to improve readability throughout the text.

Justified looked nice on larger bodies of text but had very poor readability on small text blurbs. I wanted to include short descriptions and explanations throughout the book so I knew justified wasn't going to be the best option.