Typography

The organization of letters on a blank sheet?or screen?is the most basic challenge facing anyone who practices design. What type of font to use How big How should those letters, words, and paragraphs be aligned, spaced, ordered, shaped, and otherwise manipulated In this groundbreaking new primer, leading design educator and historian Ellen Lupto...

A bestselling design classic, Stop Stealing Sheep & find out how type works has inspired and enlightened designers for 20 years with its bold, engaging design and entertaining approach to type education. In this third edition, internationally acclaimed designer Erik Spiekermann brings the book up to date with an allnew chapter on mobile and web ty...

Renowned typographer and poet Robert Bringhurst brings clarity to the art of typography with this masterful style guide. Combining the practical, theoretical, and historical, this edition is completely updated, with a thorough revision and updating of the longest chapter, "Prowling the Specimen Books," and many other small but important updates bas...

What?s your type Suddenly everyone?s obsessed with fonts. Whether you?re enraged by Ikea?s Verdanagate, want to know what the Beach Boys have in common with easy Jet or why it?s okay to like Comic Sans, Just My Type will have the answer. Learn why using upper case got a New Zealand health worker sacked. Refer to Prince in the Tafkap years as a Din...

The long awaited followup to our alltime bestseller Thinking with Type is here. Type on Screen is the definitive guide to using classic typographic concepts of form and structure to make dynamic compositions for screenbased applications. Covering a broad range of technologies?from electronic publications and websites to videos and mobile devices...

Take a look at the experiences and associations typeface evokes. Fonts have different personalities that can create trust or mistrust, give you confidence, make things seem easier to do or make a product taste better. Understand the science behind how fonts influence what you read. They're hidden in plain sight, they trigger memories, associations ...

The Visual History of Type is a comprehensive, detailed survey of the major typefaces produced since the advent of printing with movable type in the mid?fifteenth century to the present day. Arranged chronologically to provide context, more than 320 typefaces are displayed in the form of their original type specimens or earliest printing. Each entr...

Better Web Typography for a Better Web is a book is based on a toprated online course explaining typography to people who build web sites?web designers and web developers. The author, Matej Latin, takes complex concepts such as vertical rhythm, modular scale and page composition, and explains them in a simple way. The content of the book is accomp...

Emil Ruder's Typography is the timeless textbook from which generations of typographer and graphic designers have learned their fundamentals. Ruder, one of the great twentiethcentury typographers was a pioneer who abandoned the conventional rules of his discipline and replaced them with new rules that satisfied the requirements of his new typograp...

A bestselling practical introduction to typography, this book analyzes the basic principles and applications of type. In this revised and expanded edition, the author includes more on digital type, as well as new material on setting of type, choosing an appropriate typeface, and the use of colour to reinforce typographic hierarchy. The section on ...

Achieving a thorough grasp of typography can take a lifetime, but moving beyond the basics is within your reach right now. In this book, we?ll learn how to look at typefaces with a discerning eye, different approaches to typographic planning, how typography impacts the act of reading, and how to choose and combine appropriate typefaces from an aest...

Students and professionals in any creative field can benefit from a good typographic eye. The Anatomy of Type (The Geometry of Type in the UK) is all about looking more closely at letters. Through visual diagrams and practical descriptions, you?ll learn how to distinguish between related typefaces and see how the attributes of letterforms (such as ...

Note to customers: The print version of this book is highly formatted, and many pages contain examples that use a variety of approaches to text layout including the use of multiple fonts. The subtleties of this layout would be lost when converted to ePub, so we have chosen to offer this ebook only in PDF format, which keeps the page layout intact.B...

A deep understanding of letterforms and knowledge of their effective use can only be obtained with constant observation and experimentation; it evolves over a lifetime of design practice and study. This comprehensive guide is intended to advance the progress of designers seeking to deepen their typographic expertise. Typography Essentials is a prac...

An indispensable new guide for developing and designing typefaces One of the most essential tools of graphic design, typography influences the appearance of visual print materials perhaps more than any other component. This essential book explains the processes behind creating and designing type. Author Karen Cheng discusses issues of structure, op...

Seen in everything from wedding invitations and birth announcements to IOUs, menus, and diplomas, script typefaces impart elegance and sophistication to a broad variety of texts. Scripts never go out of style, and the hundreds of inventive examples here are sure to inspire today's designers.Derived from handwriting, these are typefaces that are sty...

Typography the design of letters is at the heart of visual communication and graphic design. No design is successful without successful typography. An artful craft since the days of moveable type, today's digital designers have an unimaginable array of possibilities when it comes to choosing typefaces. Whether on paper, screen or in eink, legib...

Best of international graphic design from 1970 to 1999....

Quirky, poignant, astute, funny?this beautiful book presents a compelling collection of observations on visual culture and design, written and illuminated by worldrenowned typographic illustrator Marian Bantjes. In Stefan Sagmeister's telling words, Bantjes's work is his "favorite example of beauty facilitating the communication of meaning."...

Language Culture Type grew out of the first international typedesign competition, the 2001 bukva: raz!, whose goal was to promote global cultural pluralism, interaction, and diversity in typographic communications.The book lavishly presents the winning entries, along with information about each typeface, its language, and its designer. A series of...

Brought together for the first time in a single volume, the writing is drawn from an international array of books and periodicals, and have been selected for their expression of something ?important, interesting and/or amusing about typography.?These essays provide a view of the development of modern typography and cover a diverse range of subjects...

For over 50 years, Encyclopaedia of Typefaces has been the dominant typeface guide and now the internationally celebrated work is published in a new 55thAnniversary edition.With over 2,000 type faces arranged alphabetically and into three sections Romans, Lineales and Scripts this is the most accessible and easytouse edition yet. Each entry inc...

The bestselling graphic design reference, updated for the digital age Meggs' History of Graphic Design is the industry's unparalleled, awardwinning reference. With over 1,400 highquality images throughout, this visually stunning text guides you through a saga of artistic innovators, breakthrough technologies, and groundbreaking developments that ...

Since its initial publication in Berlin in 1928, Jan Tschichold's The New Typography has been recognized as the definitive treatise on book and graphic design in the machine age. First published in English in 1995, with an excellent introduction by Robin Kinross, this new edition includes a foreword by Rich Hendel, who considers current thinking ab...

The classic Designing with Type has been completely redesigned, with an updated format and full color throughout. New information and new images make this perennial bestseller an even more valuable tool for anyone interested in learning about typography. The fifth edition has been integrated with a convenient website, www.designingwithtype.com, wh...