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The elements of typographic style / Robert Bringhurst.

By: Bringhurst, Robert.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Point Roberts, WA : Hartley & Marks, Publishers c2004Edition: 3rd ed.Description: 382 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0881792055; 0881792063 .Subject(s): Graphic design (Typography) | Type and type-founding | Book designDDC classification: 686.224
Contents:
The Grand Design -- Rhythm & Proportion -- Harmony & Counterpoint -- Structural Forms & Devices -- Analphabetic symbols -- Choosing & Combining type -- Historical Interlude -- Shaping the page -- The state of the Art -- Grooming the font -- Prowling the Specimen Books.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Renowned typographer and poet Robert Bringhurst brings clarity to the art of typography with this masterful style guide. Combining practical, theoretical, and historical, this book is a must for graphic artists, editors, or anyone working with the printed page using digital or traditional methods.

Having established itself as a standard in its field The Elements of Typographic Style is house manual at most American university presses, a standard university text, and a reference work in studios of designers around the world. It has been translated into italian greek, and dutch.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-364) and index.

The Grand Design -- Rhythm & Proportion -- Harmony & Counterpoint -- Structural Forms & Devices -- Analphabetic symbols -- Choosing & Combining type -- Historical Interlude -- Shaping the page -- The state of the Art -- Grooming the font -- Prowling the Specimen Books.

CIT Module DESI 6007 - Supplementary reading

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Foreword (p. 9)
  • Historical Synopsis (p. 12)
  • 1 The Grand Design (p. 17)
  • 2 Rhythm & Proportion (p. 25)
  • 3 Harmony & Counterpoint (p. 45)
  • 4 Structural Forms & Devices (p. 61)
  • 5 Analphabetic Symbols (p. 75)
  • 6 Choosing & Combining Type (p. 93)
  • 7 Historical Interlude (p. 119)
  • 8 Shaping the Page (p. 143)
  • 9 The State of the Art (p. 179)
  • 10 Grooming the Font (p. 198)
  • 11 Prowling the Specimen Books (p. 209)
  • Appendix A The Working Alphabet (p. 288)
  • Appendix B Glossary of Characters (p. 301)
  • Appendix C Glossary of Terms (p. 321)
  • Appendix D Type Designers (p. 333)
  • Appendix E Typefoundries (p. 346)
  • Further Reading (p. 357)
  • Afterword to the Third Edition (p. 365)
  • Index (p. 367)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Robert Bringhurst was born October 16, 1946, in the ghetto of South Central Los Angeles and raised in the mountain and desert country of Alberta, Montana, Utah, Wyoming and British Columbia. He spent ten years as an undergraduate, studying physics, architecture and linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, philosophy and oriental languages at the University of Utah, and comparative literature at Indiana University, which gave him a Bachelor of Arts in 1973. He had published two books of poems before entering the writing program at the University of British Columbia, which awarded him an MFA in 1975.

From 1977 to 1980 he taught writing and English literature at UBC, and after that, made his living as a typographer. He has also been poet-in-residence and writer-in-residence at several universities in North America and Europe. His book, The Elements of Typographic Style is considered a standard text in its field, and Black Canoe is one of the classics in the field of Native American art history. He received the Macmillan Prize for Poetry in 1975.

(Bowker Author Biography)