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Seeing as we are approaching the Haunting Hour, I figured, a terribly fiendish and macabre "menu" was a great direction to take this project in. Other people put food items on their menus...I just put a different kind of food item on the menu. Trust me, the Zombies are just jumpin' at the thought of these delectable morsels. But we don't just stop at food. I can assure you Frankenstein procures our services quite frequently when he's in need of a tune-up.
This was a nice experience in learning about Paragraph and Character style usage. I often work with InDesign at theGriffin newspaper, so this taught me a little more about the InDesign program.

I focused on which typefaces might work. Some of the type faces, such as Cochin, chosen for the "Items" are very similar in style to others (i.e. Modern No. 20 which I chose for the Establishment's name and "Categories"). Normally type faces shouldn't be that similar, but I felt that Cochin and Modern held a very unified look for this menu overall. I focused on a little bit of kerning, but tried to get the styles to do most of the work for me. In the style of any high end eatery, the real typographic contrast came through the use of the italic lettering (Century Old Style Std). I am weary to use so many different fontfaces in one work, but each had its place so I thought that it meshed well.

Description
Seeing as we are approaching the Haunting Hour, I figured, a terribly fiendish and macabre "menu" was a great direction to take this project in. Other people put food items on their menus...I just put a different kind of food item on the menu. Trust me, the Zombies are just jumpin' at the thought of these delectable morsels. But we don't just stop at food. I can assure you Frankenstein procures our services quite frequently when he's in need of a tune-up.
This was a nice experience in learning about Paragraph and Character style usage. I often work with InDesign at theGriffin newspaper, so this taught me a little more about the InDesign program.

I focused on which typefaces might work. Some of the type faces, such as Cochin, chosen for the "Items" are very similar in style to others (i.e. Modern No. 20 which I chose for the Establishment's name and "Categories"). Normally type faces shouldn't be that similar, but I felt that Cochin and Modern held a very unified look for this menu overall. I focused on a little bit of kerning, but tried to get the styles to do most of the work for me. In the style of any high end eatery, the real typographic contrast came through the use of the italic lettering (Century Old Style Std). I am weary to use so many different fontfaces in one work, but each had its place so I thought that it meshed well.