Typefaces For Books

Author : Simon Garfield
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847652921
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Just My Type written by Simon Garfield and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-10-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just My Type is not just a font book, but a book of stories. About how Helvetica and Comic Sans took over the world. About why Barack Obama opted for Gotham, while Amy Winehouse found her soul in 30s Art Deco. About the great originators of type, from Baskerville to Zapf, or people like Neville Brody who threw out the rulebook, or Margaret Calvert, who invented the motorway signs that are used from Watford Gap to Abu Dhabi. About the pivotal moment when fonts left the world of Letraset and were loaded onto computers ... and typefaces became something we realised we all have an opinion about. As the Sunday Times review put it, the book is 'a kind of Eats, Shoots and Leaves for letters, revealing the extent to which fonts are not only shaped by but also define the world in which we live.' This edition is available with both black and silver covers.

Author : Colin Wheildon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781875750221
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Type & Layout written by Colin Wheildon and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For anyone who has a say in what appears in print and need to know whether, as well as looking good, it will do its job by being read. It gives practical answers on choosing the right typeface, on colour, tints, and many basic aspects of layout.

Author : Fernand Baudin
Publisher : Ben Uri Gallery & Museum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Typography Works written by Fernand Baudin and published by Ben Uri Gallery & Museum. This book was released on 1989 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen Coles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500292457
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Geometry of Type written by Stephen Coles and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Geometry of Type explores 100 traditional and modern typefaces in detail, with a full spread devoted to each entry. Characters from each typeface are enlarged and annotated to reveal key features, anatomical details, and the finer, often-overlooked elements of type design, which shows how these attributes affect mood and readability. Sidebar information lists the designer and foundry, the year of release and the different weights and styles available, while feature boxes explain the origins and best uses for each typeface, such as whether it is suitable for running text or as a display font for headlines. To help the reader spot each typeface in the wider world, the full character set is shown, and the best letters for identification are highlighted.

Author : Gail Anderson
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780679939
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Graphic Design Idea Book written by Gail Anderson and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-13 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book serves as an introduction to the key elements of good design. Broken into sections covering the fundamental elements of design, key works by acclaimed designers serve to illustrate technical points and encourage readers to try out new ideas. Themes covered include narrative, colour, illusion, ornament, simplicity, and wit and humour. The result is an instantly accessible and easy to understand guide to graphic design using professional techniques.

Author : Janette Sebring Lowrey
Publisher : Golden Books
ISBN 13 : 0375861297
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poky Little Puppy written by Janette Sebring Lowrey and published by Golden Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One night a puppy,who is always late coming home finds there is no dessert for him. On board pages.

Author : Karen Cheng
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300249926
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Designing Type written by Karen Cheng and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The now-classic introduction to designing typography, handsomely redesigned and updated for the digital age In this invaluable book, Karen Cheng explains the processes behind creating and designing type, one of the most important tools of graphic design. She addresses issues of structure, optical compensation, and legibility, with special emphasis given to the often-overlooked relationships between letters and shapes in font design. In this second edition, students and professional graphic designers alike will benefit from an expanded discussion of the creative practice of designing type—what designers need to consider, their rationale, and issues of accessibility—in the context of contemporary processes for the digital age. Illustrated with more than 400 diagrams that demonstrate visual principles and letter construction, ranging from informal progress sketches to final type designs and diagrams, this essential guide analyzes a wide range of classic and modern typefaces, including those from many premier type foundries. Cheng’s text covers the history of type, the primary systems of typeface classification, the parts of a letter, and the effects of new technology on design methodology, among many other key topics.

Author : Alexander S. Lawson
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9780879233334
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anatomy of a Typeface written by Alexander S. Lawson and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1990 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To the layman, all printing types look the same. But for typographers, graphic artists and others of that lunatic fringe who believe that the letters we look at daily (and take entirely for granted) are of profound importance, the question of how letters are formed, what shape they assume, and how they have evolved remains one of passionate and continuing concern. Lawson explores the vast territory of types, their development and uses, their antecedents and offspring, with precision, insight, and clarity. Written for the layman but containing exhaustive research, drawings and synopses of typefaces, this book is an essential addition to the library of anyone s typographic library. It is, as Lawson states, not written for the printer convinced that there are already too many typefaces, but rather for that curious part of the population that believes the opposite; that the subtleties of refinement as applies to roman and cursive letters have yet to be fully investigated and that the production of the perfect typeface remains a goal to be as much desired by present as by future type designers. Anyone aspiring to typographic wisdom should own and treasure this classic."--Amazon description.

Author : Michael Mitchell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Book Typography written by Michael Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books depend on good design to communicate. This practical guide to typography explains the principles of good design, why they exist and when and how to put them into practice.

Author : Jeff Level
Publisher : Hartley & Marks Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780881791822
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Precision Type Font Reference Guide written by Jeff Level and published by Hartley & Marks Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More typeface designs are now being produced and more people using them than at any other time in history. This comprehensive catalogue of fonts for electronic publishing provides a large range of designs from classic to contemporary, giving for each one, a full alphabet, history and designer information, and including an index with page numbers and foundries. Over 13,000 font samples are displayed from over 60 font sources including Adobe Systems, Agfa, Alphabets Inc, Bitstream, The Font Bureau, ITC and Monotype Typography.