Typography Books: Thinking with Type - A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students (9781568989693) By Ellen Lupton

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Thinking with Type:  A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students
  • Title: Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students
  • Author: Ellen Lupton
  • Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
  • Published Date: September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781568989693
  • Pages: 224 pages, 100 color illustrations
  • Format: Paperback
  • Price:   United Kingdom   USA
The Book
  • Best selling book on typography
  • Definitive guide to using typography in visual communication, from the printed page to the computer screen
  • Latest information on style sheets for print and the web
  • The use of ornaments and captions, lining and non-lining numerals
  • The use of small caps and enlarged capitals
  • Information on captions, font licensing, mixing typefaces, and hand lettering
  • Visual examples show how to be inventive within systems of typographic form
  • What the rules are and how to break them
  • Aimed at designers, writers, editors, students, and anyone else who works with words
The Author

Ellen Lupton - America's preeminent design educators. Books include DIY: Design It Yourself, Graphic Design: The New Basics (with Jennifer Cole Phillips), and several others. Curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York. Director of the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.

Inside the Book

    Letter

  • Anatomy
  • Size
  • Scale
  • Type Classification
  • Type Families
  • Superfamilies
  • Caps and Small Caps
  • Mixing Typefaces
  • Numerals
  • Punctuation
  • Typeface Design
  • Project: Letterforms
  • Font Formats
  • Text

  • Kerning
  • Tracking
  • Project: Space and Meaning
  • Line Spacing
  • Alignment
  • Project: Alignment
  • Vertical Text
  • Marking Paragraphs
  • Enlarged Capitals
  • Hierarchy
  • Project: Hierarchy
  • Project: Long Lists
  • Grid

  • Golden Section
  • Single-Column Grid
  • Multicolumn Grid
  • Modular Grid
  • Extras

  • Tools for Teachers
  • Type Crimes
  • Editing
  • Editing Hard Copy
  • Editing Soft Copy
  • Proofreading
  • Bibliography
  • About the Author
  • About the Website
More Books by Ellen Lupton
  • DIY: Design it Yourself (Design Handbooks)
  • Indie Publishing: How to Design and Produce Your Own Book
  • Area_2: Curated by Ruedi Baur, Irma Boom, Julia Hasting, James Goggin, Ellen Lupton, Saki Mafundikwa, Jan Middendorp, Dan Nadel, Brett Phillips, Keiichi Tanaami

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