A critical guide for designers, writers, editors and students.

An analysis of letter forms, from Garamond and Bembo to the design and manufacture of sans-serif and newspaper type.

This is a comprehensive compendium of modern, up-to-date information illuminating the design, construction and usage of alphabets and symbols for graphic designers and other practitioners of the typographic arts.

The era of ASCII characters on green screens is long gone. Industry leaders such as Apple, HP, IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle have adopted the Unicode Worldwide Character Standard. This book explains information on fonts and typography that software and web developers need to know to get typography and fonts to work properly.

The development of type and type design from its inception to the present day, alongside the technical advances of printing.

'METAFONT' is a system for the design of symbols and alphabetic characters suited to raster-based devices that print or display text. This METAFONT book enables readers, with only minimal computer science or word processing experience, to master the basic as well as the more advanced features of METAFONT programming.

A collection of graphic works using digital typefaces designed recently as well as traditional common fonts.

Brings together diverse logos from over 30 countries, organized into chapters by theme, such as socio-political, food and beverage, technology, and consumer products. This book provides a full index at the end, which lists each logo's company, designer, and designer's website. It is useful for those interested in design.

As someone who works with fonts every day, you need to know exactly how fonts work in Mac OS X. Long-time Mac author Sharon Zardetto Aker has the answers you need, explaining where your fonts reside, why they are there, and what to do about duplication and long Font menus. Once that's under control, you'll learn things like the ins and outs of different font installation methods; how to use Font .

Choosing the right font can be one of the hardest parts of your job as a digital designer--there are literally thousands to choose from. One of the largest and most respected collections of high-quality fonts is the Adobe Type Library, now available entirely in the cross-platform OpenType(R) format, which promises to make font incompatibilities a thing of the past. Any designer who has struggled .

Initially published in 2000, this title will now be available with a FREE CD-Rom.

This work presents a wealth of complete alphabets with graphics from avant-garde modernist publications of the early 20th century. Capricious and unpredictable, it obeys no rules, confuses categories and takes liberties.

Eric Gill, who died in 1940, was among the greatest English artist-craftsmen of the 20th century: a typographer and lettercutter of genius, and a master in the art of sculpture and wood-engraving. In this biography, the problems and contradictions of Gill the man and Gill the artist are examined.

Suitable for typography educators, this book discusses graphic design and is supported by a Web site that contains resources for students and professors.

Suitable for designers, art directors, and typographers, this work brings together independent type foundries from around the world. It goes beyond the standard fonts that come installed on a computer and make your work stand out with an original font. It includes independent foundries with names as original as their fonts such as: Underware.

Appropriate for introductory courses on print publishing, desktop publishing, typography, or document production, this book provides students with simple, logical principles for using type to produce professional documents. Some of the topics include: real vs. generic quotation marks, the correct use of en and em dashes, tabs, indents, and more.

Type is the bridge between writer and reader, between thought and understanding. This book treats typography as a measure of history. It is a guide through the history of letters and a study of their power. From fashion through propaganda and the development of mass literacy, it shows how typography has changed our world.

Provides creative ideas, techniques, and basic design principles that are essential to Web design-all in the context of the technology, software, and standards. This work contains real-world examples, illustrations, and instructions you need to implement the techniques and concepts.

Alexander Short, a stylish young reference librarian, is hired by Henry James Jesson III for some after-hours research on a mysterious 18th-century inventor. As his investigation heats up, Alexander realizes there are many more secrets lurking in Jesson's cloistered world than were first apparent.