Typesetting

Menus

We spent the lesson learning about typesetting and working from a type spec to lay out a restaurant menu.  Then we designed our own type spec for the same Italian Restaurant.  The format for each item was saved as a character style which stays with the document. All typos in the spec have to be resolved to ensure the styling is consistent.

Type spec for Gino’s Italian

Key:

Title: BodoniXT regular 72pt Pantone P1-3U

Byline: La Compagnie des Ombres regular 24pt black

Subheading: Champagne and Limousine regular 36pt Pantone P44-6U

Captions: BodoniXT regular 18pt black

Body Text: Champage and Limousine regular 12pt Pantone P34-5U

References: BodoniXT regular 8pt black

Colours as above

Copy:

Title: Gino’s Italian

Subtitle: Main Menu:

Subheading: Starters:

Subheading: Aperitivi

Byline: A glass of bubbles to start…

Captions: Prosecco Brut Glass 5.00

Captions: APEROL SPRITZ Glass 5.95

Bodytext: Aperol, Prosecco and soda plus ice.

Subheading: Breads & Nibbles

Captions: Italian Olives (V) NG LC 2.95

Bodytext: Large green Nocellara olives from Sicily.

etc