
Thinking With Type 2nd Ed
Ellen Lupton(Author)
Princeton Architectural Press
2nd Edition
Published on 26. August 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-56898-969-3 (ISBN)
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Description
"Thinking with Type is to typography what Stephen Hawking's 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 Lupton's guide reveals the way typefaces are constructed and how to use them most effectively.
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 Lupton's guide reveals the way typefaces are constructed and how to use them most effectively.
More details
Edition
Second Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Interest Age: From 18 to 99 years
Dimensions
Height: 217 mm
Width: 179 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
580 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56898-969-3 (9781568989693)
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Person
Ellen Lupton is one of America's preeminent design educators. Her books include Indie Publishing, DIY: Design It Yourself, Graphic Design: The New Basics (with Jennifer Cole Phillips), Design Your Life (with Julia Lupton), and many others. She is curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York, and director of the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore.