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The stuff type is made of / designed and written by Andrew I. Bayroff.
Publication details: Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c2000.Description: xiv, 79 p. ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0130220043 :
- Z253 .B368 2000
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Summary: This easytouse quick reference guide to typography covers the history of type as well as typeface usage and selection, and includes comparisons and variations of typeface. Five Families. Breakdown. Spacing, Layout, and Usage. How We Read Copy. Comparisons of Sarif and Sans Serif. Words and Terms. For beginning graphic designers or anyone who needs a quick reference to typography.
Five Families -- Garamond -- Baskerville -- Bodoni -- Century Expanded -- Helvetica -- Breakdown -- All of the Parts -- Stress -- Stroke: Thick and Thin -- Serifs -- Spacing, Layout, and Usage -- Kerning -- Leading -- Paragraph Layout -- Digital Type Effects -- Headline Usage -- Body Copy Usage -- Members of the Family -- How We Read Copy -- Reading in Color -- Blocks of Color -- Optically Correct -- Comparisons -- The Serif -- The Sans Serif -- A Closer Look -- Typefaces By the Handful -- Typography Books.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | Z 253 .B368 2000 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Copy Type:01 - Books | Available | 619569 |
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| Z 251 .S97 C63 2006 The typography of Syriac : a historical catalogue of printing types, 1537-1958 / | Z 252.5 .L48 R584 2011 Handmade type workshop : techniques for creating original characers and digital fonts / | Z 252.5 .R4 J879 2004 Letterpress : the allure of the handmade / | Z 253 .B368 2000 The stuff type is made of / | Z 253 .C65 2012 The anatomy of type : a graphic guide to 100 typefaces / | Z 253 .R736 2014 History of the Linotype Company / | Z 253.3 .W55 1996 Beyond the Mac is not a typewriter : more typographic insights and secrets / |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 74) and index.
Five Families -- Garamond -- Baskerville -- Bodoni -- Century Expanded -- Helvetica -- Breakdown -- All of the Parts -- Stress -- Stroke: Thick and Thin -- Serifs -- Spacing, Layout, and Usage -- Kerning -- Leading -- Paragraph Layout -- Digital Type Effects -- Headline Usage -- Body Copy Usage -- Members of the Family -- How We Read Copy -- Reading in Color -- Blocks of Color -- Optically Correct -- Comparisons -- The Serif -- The Sans Serif -- A Closer Look -- Typefaces By the Handful -- Typography Books.
This easytouse quick reference guide to typography covers the history of type as well as typeface usage and selection, and includes comparisons and variations of typeface. Five Families. Breakdown. Spacing, Layout, and Usage. How We Read Copy. Comparisons of Sarif and Sans Serif. Words and Terms. For beginning graphic designers or anyone who needs a quick reference to typography.
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