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Adobe Type Library Reference Book

A must-have for every graphic designer. An indispensable reference to Adobe's revolutionary OpenType Fonts (font files that work on both Mac and Windows platforms). Displays the characters of each typeface, plus contains useful reference charts with standard expert character sets for Windows and Mac OS.

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Typography Essentials: 100 Design Principles for Working with Type

This book outlines and demonstrates basic type guidelines and rules. Under 100 subject headings, it covers everything from choosing the typeface, striving for rhythm and balance with type, combining typefaces, using special characters, kerning, legibility, and to everything in between. These essentials of type design are critical to the success of any project.

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The New Typography: A Handbook for Modern Designers

Since its initial publication in Berlin in 1928, Jan Tschichold's The New Typography has been recognized as the definitive treatise on book and graphic design in the machine age. From theoretical discussions of typography in the age of photography and mechanical standardization to practical considerations in design of business forms, this book remains essential reading.

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The New Typography
Item No.: 0520071476

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The Elements of Typographic Style
On amazon's list of best sellers

This well-written book is concerned foremost with creating beautiful typography and is essential for professionals who regularly work with typographic designs. Author Robert Bringhurst writes about designing with the correct typeface; striving for rhythm, proportion, and harmony; choosing and combining type; applying kerning and other type adjustments to improve legibility; and adding special characters.

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The Non-Designer's Type Book: Insights and Techniques for Creating Professional-Level Type

This latest addition to Robin Williams' Non-Designer's series, this book not only defines the principles governing type but explains the logic behind them so readers can understand and see what looks best and why.

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The Non-Designer's Type Book
Item No.: 0321303369

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Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works, Second Edition
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A unique, entertaining, and educational tour through the most basic unit of human communication: type. A perennial seller since 1993, it draws in the reader with its beautiful design and layout, making liberal use of illustrations and photographs. The author explains in everyday terms what type is and how you can use it to enhance legibility, meaning, and aesthetic enjoyment.

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Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works
Item No.: 0201703394

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Typographic Design: Form and Communication

Bestselling among design professionals and students. This book offers detailed coverage of such essential topics as the anatomy of letters and type families, visual communications and design aesthetics, and designing for legibility.

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Typographic Design
Item No.: 0471783900

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A Typographic Workbook: A Primer to History, Techniques, and Artistry

To help you gain a deeper understanding of the effects produced by various fonts and typographic techniques, designer Kate Clair takes you on a fascinating tour of the innovative potential of type. Extensive visual examples illustrate the use of type as an expressive communication tool.

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A Typographic Workbook
Item No.: 0471696900

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Texts on Type: Critical Writings on Typography

No designer can ignore the principles of typography, and yet there is hardly any class that provides students with a solid groundwork for it. "Texts on Type" is a powerful springboard for everybody seriously involved in typography, whether from the motion picture, book publishing or fine arts arenas.

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Texts on Type
Item No.: 1581150822

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Type & Typography

The definitive guide for every designer who works with type and layout. A roadmap that helps you navigate among the bewildering variety of typefaces available, as well as scores of no-fail techniques for using type as a meaningful design element.

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Type & Typography
Item No.: 0823055248

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The Complete Manual of Typography

About how type should look and how to make it look that way; in other words, how to set type like a professional. It releases the craft knowledge that used to reside almost exclusively in the heads of people working in type shops. The shops are gone, the technologies have changed, but the goal remains the same. This book explains how to use today's computerized tools to achieve that secret of good design: well-set type.

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The Complete Manual of Typography
Item No.: 0321127307

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