Neuware - Beautifully designed and richly illustrated The Complete Manual of Typography, Second Edition, is the fully updated version of THE seminal book on typography by Jim Felici. This book is about how type should look and how to make it look that way - in other words, how to set type like a professional. It explains in practical terms how to use today's digital tools to achieve the secret of good design: well set type. An essential reference for anyone who works with type: designers, print production professionals, and corporate communications managers can go to straight to the index to find focused answers to specific questions, while educators and students can read it as a text book from cover to cover. You'll Learn: Basic Concepts and anatomy of good typography, indexed for quick reference by busy professionals How to manage fonts and handle corrupted or missing fonts on any operating system What makes good type good (and bad type bad) Techniques for working with measure, point-size, leading, kerning, and other type fundamentals Practical ways to fix composition problems such as loose lines, bad rags, windows, and orphans Hard-to-find rules for managing hyphenation and justification, indents, text wraps, and expert-set characters Secrets of how to wring out good type from uncooperative word-processing and layout problems The latest font technologies, including OpenType New typographic tools and improved font services in Operating Systems such as Windows and Mac OS New Techniques, and coverage of working methods such as style sheets. 35 page glossary of type terms.

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Titel: The Complete Manual of Typography : A Guide to Setting Perfect Type
Verlag: Pearson Education Jul 2011
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0321773268
ISBN-13: 9780321773265
Einband: Taschenbuch
Auflage: 2. Auflage
Zustand: Neu

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Note to customers: The print version of this book is highly formatted, and many pages contain examples that use a variety of approaches to text layout including the use of multiple fonts. The subtleties of this layout would be lost when converted to ePub, so we have chosen to offer this ebook only in PDF format, which keeps the page layout intact.

Beautifully designed and richly illustrated The Complete Manual of Typography, Second Edition, is the fully updated version of THE seminal book on typography by Jim Felici. This book is about how type should look and how to make it look that way ― in other words, how to set type like a professional. It explains in practical terms how to use today’s digital tools to achieve the secret of good design: well set type. An essential reference for anyone who works with type: designers, print production professionals, and corporate communications managers can go to straight to the index to find focused answers to specific questions, while educators and students can read it as a text book from cover to cover.

You’ll Learn:

Basic Concepts and anatomy of good typography, indexed for quick reference by busy professionals
How to manage fonts and handle corrupted or missing fonts on any operating system
What makes good type good (and bad type bad)
Techniques for working with measure, point-size, leading, kerning, and other type fundamentals
Practical ways to fix composition problems such as loose lines, bad rags, windows, and orphans
Hard-to-find rules for managing hyphenation and justification, indents, text wraps, and expert-set characters
Secrets of how to wring out good type from uncooperative word-processing and layout problems
The latest font technologies, including OpenType
New typographic tools and improved font services in Operating Systems such as Windows and Mac OS
New Techniques, and coverage of working methods such as style sheets.
35 page glossary of type terms

Praise for the first edition

"Clear and elegant... There's no better or more useful introduction to the whole craft of typography"

Roger Black - Danilo Black, Inc

"All you've wanted to know about type and typography but never dared ask. Jim Felici brings together a vast amount of knowledge in this book. Must-Have!"

Erik Spiekermann author, Stop Stealing Sheep (and Find Out How Type Works)

�ber die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Charlotte y Peter Fiell son dos autoridades en historia, teor�a y cr�tica del dise�o y han escrito m�s de sesenta libros sobre la materia, muchos de los cuales se han convertido en �xitos de ventas. Tambi�n han impartido conferencias y cursos como profesores invitados, han comisariado exposiciones y asesorado a fabricantes, museos, salas de subastas y grandes coleccionistas privados de todo el mundo. Los Fiell han escrito numerosos libros para TASCHEN, entre los que se incluyen 1000 Chairs, Dise�o del siglo XX, El dise�o industrial de la A a la Z, Scandinavian Design y Dise�o del siglo XXI.

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