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.

The Geometry of Type
The Geometry of Type

Author: Stephen Coles

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780500292457

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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. This beautiful and highly practical work of reference for font spotters, designers and users is a close-up celebration of typefaces and great type design.

Before & After
Before & After

Author: John McWade

Publisher: Peachpit Press

Published: 2009-11-11

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 0132705125

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Before and After magazine's focus on clarity, simplicity, and elegance has won it legions of fans--fans who will welcome this second volume of the definitive Before and After Page Design by John McWade. Truly an icon of the graphic design community, his insistence on approaching design not as mere decoration but as an essential form of communication is vividly apparent in this cohesive primer on page design and layout. And you could not hope for a better, more qualified teacher. McWade shows readers how to arrange and present information using today's powerful graphics tools. Readers will learn how to design single-page and multi-page documents, brochures, and ads; why one typeface works better than another; and much more. Best of all, they'll discover how to think visually transforming the images in their heads into something that communicates effectively on the page.

Typefaces for Books
Typefaces for Books

Author: James Sutton

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781561310173

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More than a hundred currently available filmset typefaces are presented here in large-format, double-page specimen settings, in various sizings and spacings.

Book Typography
Book Typography

Author: Michael Mitchell

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13:

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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.

Typeface
Typeface

Author: Tamye Riggs

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-07-29

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13:

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"Typeface: Classic Typography for Contemporary Design is a unique sourcebook featuring forty-six classic typefaces that continue to resonate with today's most influential graphic designers."--Inside cover.

One Hundred Books Famous in Typography
One Hundred Books Famous in Typography

Author: Jerry Kelly

Publisher:

Published: 2021-12-06

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9781605830940

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The story of a foundational aspect of publishing, from Gutenberg's press to today's digital type. It's common knowledge that the name Gutenberg and the words "moveable type" go together. What's far less known is that Garamond, Baskerville, and Bodoni aren't just font options in a word processing dropdown menu, but the names of some of the real punchcutters and type designers who raised the essential work of typography to the level of art. ​ One Hundred Books Famous in Typography, the latest entry in the Grolier Club's prestigious Grolier Hundred series, is the story of art and technology working in harmony with each other, all the way from Johannes Gutenberg's ingenious development of a system for reproducing texts through the introduction of newer technologies like hot-metal line casting, phototype, and digital type. Featuring scholarly yet accessible context for the works discussed and their typographical significance, and illustrated with more than two hundred images, Jerry Kelly's book is the most comprehensive exploration yet of this essential facet of bookmaking and publishing.

The Big Book of 5,000 Fonts
The Big Book of 5,000 Fonts

Author: David E. Carter

Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 9780823004898

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That’s where this valuable book comes in. It features over 5,000 different fonts - not only the standard ones like Bodoni, Cheltenham, and Century, but also the entire collections of the smaller font foundries that produce innovative, cutting-edge type de

The Big Book of Font Combinations
The Big Book of Font Combinations

Author: Douglas Bonneville

Publisher:

Published: 2019-02

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9780960043910

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The BBOFC is an expansive collection of carefully crafted typeface pair samples. The font pairings in BBOFC will inspire you and give you back time you need for your design projects. Use the combination examples straight out of the BBOFC in your next project, with other typeface software, or use them as a springboard for your own creativity. However you use the BBOFC, it's bound to inspire and is a trustworthy companion to consult for all kinds of design projects and general study of typography.