Feature
Attractive sourcebook of royalty-free, immediately usable typefaces
recalls old-fashioned print styles found on posters and broadsides.
Books
- 1000 type treatmentsCall Number: 686.224 ONEShowcases an array of fonts in a catalog-like format, making it easy for the working designer to practically shop for ideas.
- About Face : Reviving the Rules of TypographyCall Number: 658.22 JURYPresents and explains the typography basics required by all graphic designers, from the names of the different parts of characters, typeface styles and their function, to type measurement, typeface families, and type manipulation on the computer.
- Circus Alphabets: 100 Complete FontsCall Number: 686.224 circusAttractive sourcebook of copyright-free, immediately usable typefaces recalls old-fashioned print styles found on posters and broadsides. Includes eerie Monster Outline, Raindrops and Wilcox Initials; the glamorous Diamond Inlay, Startime, Golden Era and much more. Varied sizes; mostly tall, fat and bold shapes.
- Designing with typeCall Number: 686.22 CRAIGThis classic begins with a thumbnail history of the development of written language and ends with a glossary; in between are in-depth looks at five classic typefaces, lessons on designing with text type, display type and color, and plenty of project assignments.
- Elements of typographic styleCall Number: 686.224 BRINGHUA readable manual and reference on modern typography, exploring the art and history of the field as well as technical details.
- Exploring typographyCall Number: 686.22 RABINOWReaders learn about the physical components of letters and the rules of legibility, readability, and style.
- Font, the sourcebookCall Number: 686.224 FONTDraws on the rich history of typefaces to produce a uniquely comprehensive survey of this fascinating field, beginning with its history in the foundry and carrying through to the most cutting edge and digital fonts being designed today.
- Making Digital Type Look GoodCall Number: 686.2254 gordonA comprehensive analysis of digital typography, complete with hundreds of examples of styles and setting values, that aims to be the essential reference for anyone involved with digital output.
- Thinking with typeCall Number: 686.22 LUPTONPractical information about type within a context of design history and theory in a text that reflects the diversity of typographic life, past and present.
- Type at workCall Number: 741.6 BALIUSA look into editorial design, providing insight into the use of type as a design component and ways in which type can be used to support and augment the expressive possibilities of visual information.
- Type rules!Call Number: 686.221 STRIVERFrom the fundamentals to cutting-edge applications, this edition has everything today's serious designer needs to use type effectively.
- Type spacesCall Number: 686.224 BURNHILType Spaces examines pages of books printed and published by Aldus Manutius in Venice around 1500.
- Typographic DecorationCall Number: 686.224 TYPOGRACovering the 17th through the early 20th centuries, each title in this series concentrates on a specific theme from the rich and varied world of ornamental design.
- Typography workbookCall Number: 686.22 SAMARAPresents an abundance of information on type succinctly and to the point, so that designers can get the information they need quickly and easily.
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Presents an abundance of information on type - the cornerstone of graphic design - succinctly and to the point, so that designers can get the information they need quickly and easily.