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Thinking With Type 2nd Ed

Ellen Lupton

  • Bindwijze: Paperback
  • Taal: en
  • Categorie: Kunst & Fotografie
  • ISBN: 9781568989693
A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students
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Taal:en
Bindwijze:Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum:26 augustus 2010
Aantal pagina's:224
Illustraties:Nee
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Hoofdauteur:Ellen Lupton
Hoofdauteur:Ellen Lupton
Overige kenmerken
Editie:2
Extra groot lettertype:Nee
Product breedte:180 mm
Product hoogte:17 mm
Product lengte:218 mm
Studieboek:Nee
Verpakking breedte:180 mm
Verpakking hoogte:16 mm
Verpakking lengte:215 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht:515 g
Overige kenmerken
Editie:2
Extra groot lettertype:Nee
Product breedte:180 mm
Product hoogte:17 mm
Product lengte:218 mm
Studieboek:Nee
Verpakking breedte:180 mm
Verpakking hoogte:16 mm
Verpakking lengte:215 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht:515 g

Samenvatting

Thinking with Type is to typography what Stephen Hawkings 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 Luptons guide reveals the way typefaces are constructed and how to use them most effectively.