Thinking with type : a critical guide for designers, writers, editors, & students / Ellen Lupton.
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TextPublication details: New York : Princeton Architectural, c2010Edition: 2nd rev. and expanded edDescription: 224 p. : ill. (chiefly col.)ISBN: 9781616890452 (ebook)Subject(s): Graphic design (Typography) | Type and type-founding | Technology | Industrial chemistry & manufacturing technologies | Graphic design | Typography & letteringGenre/Form: Online access: click to view 1 copy Also available in printed form ISBN 9781568989693Summary: This revised and expanded edition has 48 pages of new content, which includes style sheets for print and web, type format technologies, screen fonts, how to use lining and non-lining numerals, and how to use small caps. Our all time best selling book is now available in a revised and expanded second edition. Thinking with Type is the definitive guide to using typography in visual communication, from the printed page to the computer screen. This revised edition includes forty-eight pages of new content, including 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, as well as information on captions, font licensing, mixing typefaces, and hand lettering. Throughout the book, visual examples showhow to be inventive within systems of typographic form-what the rules are and how to break them. Thinking with Type is a type book for everyone: designers, writers, editors, students, and anyone else who works with words. The popular online companion to Thinking with Type (www.thinkingwithtype.com) has been revised to reflect the new material in the second edition.
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Previous ed.: 2004.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This revised and expanded edition has 48 pages of new content, which includes style sheets for print and web, type format technologies, screen fonts, how to use lining and non-lining numerals, and how to use small caps. Our all time best selling book is now available in a revised and expanded second edition. Thinking with Type is the definitive guide to using typography in visual communication, from the printed page to the computer screen. This revised edition includes forty-eight pages of new content, including 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, as well as information on captions, font licensing, mixing typefaces, and hand lettering. Throughout the book, visual examples showhow to be inventive within systems of typographic form-what the rules are and how to break them. Thinking with Type is a type book for everyone: designers, writers, editors, students, and anyone else who works with words. The popular online companion to Thinking with Type (www.thinkingwithtype.com) has been revised to reflect the new material in the second edition.
Also available in printed form ISBN 9781568989693
Electronic reproduction. Askews and Holts. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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