If you love font and lettering books, Ellen Lupton's guide reveals the way typefaces are constructed and how to use them most effectively. Thinking with Type is the typography book for everyone: designers, writers, editors, students, and anyone else who works with words. font formats and font licensing Plus, new eye-opening demonstrations of basic typography design with letters, helpful exercises, and dozens of additional illustrations. the use of small caps and enlarged capitals This revised edition includes forty-eight pages of new content with the latest information on: - style sheets for print and the web Visual examples show how to be inventive within systems of typographic form, including what the rules are, and how to break them. The book covers all typography essentials, from typefaces and type families, to kerning and tracking, to using a grid. Ellen Lupton provides clear and focused guidance on how letters, words, and paragraphs should be aligned, spaced, ordered, and shaped.

This edition includes 48 pages of new content and the online companion has been revised to reflect the new material.īook Synopsis 'Thinking with Type is to typography what Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time is to physics.'- I Love Typography The best-selling Thinking with Type in a revised and expanded second edition: Thinking with Type is the definitive guide to using typography in visual communication. About the Book 'Thinking with Type' is the definitive guide to using typography in visual communication, from the printed page to the computer screen.

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