Thinking with Type, 2nd revised ed.: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students - Softcover

Buch 11 von 14: Design Briefs

Lupton, Ellen

 
9781568989693: Thinking with Type, 2nd revised ed.: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1568989695 ISBN 13: 9781568989693
Verlag: Princeton Architectural Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

"Thinking with Type is to typography what Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time is to physics."—I Love Typography

The best-selling Thinking with Type in a revised and expanded second edition:Thinking with Type is the definitive guide to using typography in visual communication. Ellen Lupton provides clear and focused guidance on how letters, words, and paragraphs should be aligned, spaced, ordered, and shaped. The book covers all typography essentials, from typefaces and type families, to kerning and tracking, to using a grid. Visual examples show how to be inventive within systems of typographic form, including what the rules are, and how to break them.

This revised edition includes forty-eight pages of new content with the latest information on:

• style sheets for print and the web
• the use of ornaments and captions
• lining and non-lining numerals
• the use of small caps and enlarged capitals
• mixing typefaces
• font formats and font licensing

Plus, new eye-opening demonstrations of basic typography design with letters, helpful exercises, and dozens of additional illustrations.

Thinking with Type is the typography book for everyone: designers, writers, editors, students, and anyone else who works with words. If you love font and lettering books, Ellen Lupton's guide reveals the way typefaces are constructed and how to use them most effectively.

Fans of Thinking with Type will love Ellen Lupton's new book Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ellen Lupton is one of America's preeminent design educators. Her books include Skin , Inside Design Now , and Mixing Messages , among others. She is currently director of the design program at Maryland Institute of Art and Design.

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Verlag
Princeton Architectural Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1568989695
ISBN 13 
9781568989693
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
224
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