Working with Type
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Working with Type: Selected Essays on Type and Typography is a selection of essays by renowned typographer John D. Berry about the modern history of typography and type design, from hand-set type and letterpress printing, through the history of digital type at Microsoft, to the complexities of creating new standards of excellence for flexible typesetting on the screen. The essays delve into the history of type, considering both how typefaces are created and how they are used in visual design. In clear, direct language, Berry lays out the modern world of type on the grid of history.
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John D. Berry is an editor, typographer, book designer, and design writer in based Seattle. He has been the president of ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale), the editor of the design magazine U&lc, a book designer for Copper Canyon Press, and the program manager for the Fonts team at Microsoft. His books include Language Culture Type (2002), U&lc: Influencing Typography & Design (2005), and Hanging by a Serif: A Few Words About Designing with Words (2013). After thirty years of book and editorial design, as well as writing extensively about type and design, Berry has become a passionate advocate for effective text typography, both on- and off-screen.