Brooke Garner

This is my friend’s SketchUp book, by Lydia Cline, intended as a resourceful tool for architects. It serves as an introductory for interior design students who are seeking to learn how to use SketchUp software (to create space plans, model furniture, accessories and experiment with materials). Helvetica is used for the cover and subheads throughout the book, and the body text is a serif and appears to be Times New Roman. These fonts are easy to read and used to keep the main focus clear on explanations and helpful illustrations. I believe the designers chose to use simple font solutions, because the visual entertainment is provided from the images and the type is used strictly to inform the reader. The layout of the book is easy to follow and the hierarchy of the type, size and placement, is clear for the viewer. In the future, if I am creating a design for directional purposes, I will choose typefaces appropriately, making sure that the readability of the text is easy for the audience.