Designing with Type, 5th Edition: The Essential Guide to Typography
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| Rating | : | 4.24 (692 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0823014134 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Don't buy the Kindle Edition! Russell Page Don't buy the Kindle edition. I don't know much about the technology, but it appears Kindle readers perform font substitutions. So none of the font examples in the book work. Curiously, on my Kindle, the oblique font is actually italic, but on my PC the italic font is a sans oblique. The book itself is probably OK, but the Kindle version is a complete travesty. Hint to publishers. Proof read EVERY edition. This should have been still-born - never even shipped. I feel . It is not so valuable to take a place on your shelf It really should be called something like "Basic of Type" or "ABC of Type". That book is for those, who has no idea about type and typography but usually if you know the words 'type' and 'typography', you already know more than this book can offer you. Better, find this book in your local library, and read it, and return it, and forget it. It is not so valuable to take a place on your shelf.. A fantastic primer This book covers an amazing amount of ground in relatively few pages. It feels like a whirlwind introduction to the entire universe of typography and type design, and I think it is therefore one of the best primers available on the subject.For me, this book served as a jumping-off point to delve into more specific areas that I was personally interested in. Other books I have read (Bringhurst comes to mind) assume the reader has some background eduction in the subject.
New information and new images make this perennial best-seller an even more valuable tool for anyone interested in learning about typography. The classic Designing with Type has been completely redesigned, with an updated format and full color throughout. First published more than thirty-five years ago, Designing with Type has sold more than 250,000 copies—and this fully updated edition, with its new online resource, will educate and inspire a new generation of designers.. The fifth edition has been integrated with a convenient website, designingwithtype, where students and teachers can examine hundreds of design solutions and explore a world of typographic information
William Bevington, executive director of Parsons Institute for Information Mapping, New School University. He teaches at Parsons School of Design in New York and lives in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey. She lives in New York City. . He was the design director of Watson-Guptill Publications for more than twenty-f
Though Craig, the former design director for Watson-Guptill, touches on the way that type design can be akin to fine art, most of his focus is on the subtle ways in which typeface affects "mood," and letter shape and spacing influences readability, emphasis and even meaning. (May)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. . Even though technological advances have made innovative text design ever simpler, readers—of books, brochures, cereal boxes and subway advertisements—still tend to prefer their type t