The Complete Typographer: A Manual for Designing With Type

Perfect, Christopher;Austen, Jeremy

ISBN 10: 0130456675 / ISBN 13: 9780130456670

Published by Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1992

About this Item

Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1992, second printing (1997). Square 4to., 10 1/4" x 10 1/4", 223pp., iillustrated with color photos, b/w designs. Very good in very good dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 005342

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Complete Typographer: A Manual for Designing With Type
• Publisher: Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0130456675
• ISBN 13: 9780130456670
• Binding: Hard
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Books About Books
  • Architecture & Design

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Synopsis

Provides a definitive visual survey of type to help the typographer use type to best effect. It features: profiles of influential designers; the qualities that make a type design effective; characteristics, applications, and creative uses of each of the seven major typeface groups; special typographic effects; and advantages and disadvantages of desk top publishing typography. A hands-on design guide for typographers, graphic artists, desk top publishers, and advertising production people who want to sharpen their attention to detail and develop a sensitive typographical eye.