
(F39)_Job:12-40337 Title:RP-Design Elements 2nd Edition
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putting it all together
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MERGING TYPE AND IMAGE
Integrating Inset Images Inset images
correspond most directly to the geometric
characteristics of type. An image may be
inset, or cropped into, any kind of planar
shape: circles and ellipses, organic blobs,
triangles, trapezoids—not only within
rectangular boxes. For that matter, one may
even crop an image into a line, if the line’s
proportions permit enough of it to show.
Given this explicit geometric quality,
creating congruence between text and
inset images focuses ...