Type & Photography Reverse Engineer

By Israel Garcia

This is a magazine spread that I found on google images. It is from a magazine called

Category Identification

The two typefaces used in this magazine spread are Sans Serif and Slab Serif. The typeface circled in red is a Sans Serif typeface because it has no serifs. It is used as the title and brief description of the article. The Slab Serif typeface is circled in blue and it is identified as slab serif because the serifs are horizontal and there is no extreme transition in the strokes.

Typeface Contrast

The two typefaces used in this spread are very good at contrasting each other because there is an immediate difference. The Sans Serif typeface has no serifs and the Slab Serif typeface uses serifs. Since the title and description of the article are written in Sans Serif, the reader can easily identify where the title of the article ends and where the actual article begins. It is also good that the article is written in Slab Serif because it is good for formal writing.

Photography

This photo does a great job of using depth of field. My eye is captured first by the sunlight hitting the mountain and then I am led further into the photo to the summit. My eye then goes to the clouds which is the background of the image. Although it could be argued that this photo uses leading lines to draw the viewer’s attention, I would argue that depth of field in this images is a stronger element here.

Alternate Images for Layout

These are three images that I took that use the same principle of depth of field. I was not able to find a snowy mountain to take pictures of because those are kind of hard to come by in Phoenix, Arizona, but I was able to take some pretty cool landscapes that have a good depth of field. I also used the sun in my images since it is one of the things that caught my eye in the original picture. In my second picture I also used myself as a subject to catch the viewer’s eyes as a starting point.