Complete Guide to Digital Type: Creative Use of Typography: Creative Use of Typography in the Digital Arts - Softcover

Ellison, Andy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1856694720 ISBN 13: 9781856694728

Publisher: Laurence King Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

This is a comprehensive guide to creating and using digital type, both in print and for the Web. An introduction offers a brief history and discusses font classification and software. Step-by-step explanations are provided for creating a wide range of type effects: drop shadow, wood block style, bevel, gradient, fading type, type on curves, perforated type, and many more. Designing type for the screen presents a new set of challenges, including editable HTML, type as image and how to choose fonts, type size and colour. A chapter on creating your own fonts discusses how to get the most out of industry standard software - Fontographer, Scan Font and Font Studio - and describes how to build up letterforms and refine them in Photoshop or Illustrator. Numerous creative approaches to font design discussed here include: amending existing typefaces, combining typefaces and creating fonts out of found objects.

About this title

About the Author

Andy Ellison is a lecturer on the BA Graphics and Design course at Staffordshire University. He has a first class honours degree in Typography and Editorial Design and a master's degree in Communication Design from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London.

Edition details

• Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1856694720
• ISBN 13: 9781856694728
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192