Webworks Typography - Softcover

Mills, Jason; Donnelly, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564965198 ISBN 13: 9781564965196

Publisher: Rockport Pub, 1999

Synopsis

Provides a list of sources for computer fonts on the Web, shares interviews with typeface designers, and shows samples of their work

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Web Site Graphics: Typography—A discriminating collection, this array of masterful type-design treatments includes type fonts custom-made for the job, elegant and classic fonts stretching traditional boundaries, and mod and retry type. Learn how to stretch, alter, and successfully use type in place for any web design assignment.

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Introduction; Words are the building blocks of modern communication. Whether these groups of letterforms are presented in print, broadcast, or on the Web, a typeface is selected to visually enhance - or to facilitate the conveyance of - each word's message. Fonts can communicate as much as the words they form.

Today, type designers face new advantages and challenges posed by technological advances in typeface design. Just about anyone with enough imagination and computer skill can create a digitized font (and a few can create outstanding fonts). Consequently, the typographer's primary task - the selection of the perfect typeface to convey a given message - has become more difficult. There are now thousands of digitized fonts offered by a diverse range of talent on Web sites and in printed catalogs. Prices for typefaces, dingbats, and ornaments can range from minimal (such as freeware or shareware) to extravagant (a proprietary typeface can command thousands of dollars).

About this edition

• Publisher: Rockport Pub
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1564965198
• ISBN 13: 9781564965196
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 191