Stop stealing sheep & find out how type works / Erik Spiekerman & E.M. Ginger.
By: Spiekermann, Erik
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Contributor(s): Ginger, E. M.
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BookPublisher: Berkeley, Calif. : Adobe Press, 2003Edition: 2nd ed.Description: 188 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0201703394.Subject(s): Type and type-foundingDDC classification: 686.224 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A guide to typography. It draws in the reader with its design and layout, making use of more than 200 illustrations and photographs. It explains in everyday layman's terms what type is and how you can use it to enhance legibility, meaning, and aesthetic enjoyment. It also includes chapters on Web typography and other forms of online text display.
Bibliography: (pages 176-177) and indexes.
Type is everywhere -- What is type? -- Looking at type -- Type with a purpose -- Type builds character -- Types of type -- How it works -- Putting it to work -- There is no bad type.
CIT Module DESI 6007 - Core reading
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Erik Spiekermann is an information architect, author of books and articles on type and typography, and the designer of such typefaces as FF Meta, ITC Officina, FF Info, LoType, and Berliner Grotesk, among others. Founder of MetaDesign, Spiekermann now works as a freelance design consultantE.M. Ginger is a writer and editor whose work with type and typography spans printing and display technologies from letterpress to digital. After 12 years as managing editor of the journal Fine Print, she was a manager in the Adobe Originals Type Group, and at FontShop San Francisco. She is currently executive editor at Octavo, in Oakland, California