Typography Pocket Essentials
Published on 10. February 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-78157-115-6 (ISBN)
Description
Typography is the most ubiquitous of the graphic arts, with all of us now having access to innumerable fonts and the typographic tools that can, in the right hands, lift any text from the mundane to the beautiful.
Opening with an overview of the history of the art, Typography Pocket Essentials introduces the key principles and techniques of typography, and presents 200 of the most useful and important fonts, making it a handy primer and essential reference guide all rolled into one.
Opening with an overview of the history of the art, Typography Pocket Essentials introduces the key principles and techniques of typography, and presents 200 of the most useful and important fonts, making it a handy primer and essential reference guide all rolled into one.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Lewes
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Octopus Publishing Group
Dimensions
Height: 164 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
332 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78157-115-6 (9781781571156)
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Additional editions
Alastair Campbell | Alistair Dabbs
Typography Pocket Essentials
E-Book
02/2014
Ilex Press
€3.99
Available for download
Persons
Alastair Campbell founded the Ilex Press and was its Publisher for 13 years. He has lectured extensively throughout Europe on design, typography and illustration, and holds the coveted MacUser (U.S.) "Eddy" award for the Best New Graphic Resource, won by his mapping software Mountain High Maps. Alastair is also the author of numerous books on graphic design such as The New Designer's Handbook and The Digital Designer's Bible.