Type in Use: Effective Typography for Electronic Publishing - Softcover

White, Alex

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Synopsis

A guide to understanding and designing a publication's essential typographic elements. Organized by application --text, headlines, subheads, captions, etc. --Type in Use describes and illustrates the principles of designing pages with type and shows how the pros do it with carefully selected examples from a wide variety of current publications. It focuses on the standard type categories used in magazines, newsletters, and in-house documents; the principles can be applied to all print and electronic media. A chapter is devoted to the use of type on Web sites.

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About the Author

Alex W. White is the author of The Elements of Graphic Design: Space, Unity, Page Architecture, and TypeListening to Type: Making Language Visible, and Advertising Design and Typography. His books are used by professionals and as university texts the world over. He is chairman emeritus of the Type Directors Club and has taught graphic design and typography for thirty years at Parsons School of Design, Syracuse University, and the Hartford Art School. He is the chairman of the graduate program in design management at the Shintaro Akatsu School of Design at the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut. He holds an MFA in Advertising Design from Syracuse University and a BFA in Graphic Design from Kent State University.

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ISBN 10:  0830637966 ISBN 13:  9780830637966
Publisher: Design Pr, 1992
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