Just My Type
Just My Type

Author: Simon Garfield

Publisher: Profile Books

Published: 2010-10-21

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1847652921

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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.

Typographic Firsts
Typographic Firsts

Author: John Boardley

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781851244737

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From the practical challenges of polychromatic printing or printing music staves and notes to the techniques for illustrating books with woodcuts, producing books for children and the design of the first fonts, these stories chart the invention of the printed book, the world's first means of mass communication.

Raster Imaging and Digital Typography II
Raster Imaging and Digital Typography II

Author: Robert A. Morris

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1991-11-29

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780521417648

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The papers presented in this book were given at the RIDT 91 conference in Boston. State of the art techniques in digital typography and raster imaging, including curve-fitting, shape manipulation, font design, and page-description languages are discussed by some of the most highly regarded international figures.

Advances in Ergonomics in Design
Advances in Ergonomics in Design

Author: Francisco Rebelo

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-06-28

Total Pages: 1036

ISBN-13: 3030797600

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This book provides readers with a timely snapshot of ergonomics research and methods applied to the design, development and evaluation, of products, systems and services. It gathers theoretical contributions, case studies and reports on technical interventions focusing on a better understanding of human machine interaction, and user experience for improving product design. The book covers a wide range of established and emerging topics in user-centered design, relating to design for special populations, design education, workplace assessment and design, anthropometry, ergonomics of buildings and urban design, sustainable design, as well as visual ergonomics and interdisciplinary research and practices, among others. Based on the AHFE 2021 International Conference on Ergonomics in Design, held virtually on 25–29 July, 2021, from USA, the book offers a thought-provoking guide for both researchers and practitioners in human-centered design and related fields.

Legibility of Print
Legibility of Print

Author: Miles Albert Tinker

Publisher: Iowa State Press

Published: 1963

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13:

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Methodology and definitions; Legibility of letters and digits; Kinds of type; Size of type; Width of line; Leading and relationship of leading, type size, and line width; Spatial arrangements of the printed page; Color of print and background; Printing surfaces; Cumulative effect of combining nonoptimal typographical arrangements; Newspaper typography; Formulas and mathematical tables; Special printing situations; Illumination for reading; The hygienic reading situation.

The Complete Manual of Typography
The Complete Manual of Typography

Author: James Felici

Publisher: Adobe Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9780321773265

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This book is about how type should look and how to make it look that way--in other words, how to set type like a professional. It explains in practical terms how to use today's digital tools to achieve the secret of good design: well set type. An essential reference for anyone who works with type: designers, print production professionals, and corporate communications managers can go to straight to the index to find focused answers to specific questions, while educators and students can read it as a text book from cover to cover.