Typographic Design: Form and Communication

Benjamin R Day,Philip B Meggs,Rob Carter

ISBN 10: 0442261667 / ISBN 13: 9780442261665

Published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company April 1985, 1985

About this Item

Used copy with light wear.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Typographic Design: Form and Communication
• Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company April 1985
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0442261667
• ISBN 13: 9780442261665
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Illustrator: Profusely Illustrated
• Condition: Used - Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Graphic Design - Typography

About this title

Synopsis

A comprehensive overview of the fundamentals of typographic design that assimilates the most important innovations of the last decade of explosive progress. This thorough revision incorporates the latest technology including desktop publishing, digital type, and bit-mapped design.

From the Back Cover

This new edition of the premier reference on typographic design provides a comprehensive overview of every aspect of designing with type, from the basic terms and classifications to contemporary digital typesetting technology.

Fully revised and updated to reflect new techno-logical developments and emerging design trends, Typographic Design: Form and Communication, Third Edition offers detailed coverage of such essential topics as the anatomy of letters and type families, visual communications and design esthetics, and designing for legibility. More than 600 full-color, halftone, and line images clarify typographic fundamentals and convey a keen understanding of designing with type.

Theoretical and structural problem-solving approaches by leading design educators from across the United States reveal underlying concepts about typographic form and message. There are four pictorial timelines showing the evolution of typography and writing within the context of world events-from the origins of writing more than 5,000 years ago to contemporary website and electronic page design.

Important new features in this new edition include:
* 80 full-color pages that address the use of color in typographic design
* New case studies on specific typographic design problems for website, CD-ROM, and environmental graphics
* New example projects assigned by prominent design educators
* An emphasis on innovations in digital type technology
* New typeface specimens that present outstanding digital fonts
* New information on legibility and the Internet