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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 cmISBN:- 0130220043 :
- Z253 .B368 2000
Contents:
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)) | Available | 619569 |
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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